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San Sebastian Film Festival

17 September – 25 September 2021

Dusk Stone will screen
Dusk Stone will screen

The San Sebastian Film Festival will run from September 17 to 25. It will open with Carlos Saura's Rosa Rosae: A Spanish Civil War Elegy and close with Las Leyes De La Frontera, directed by Daniel Monzón.

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  • Earwig
    Review preview for Earwig

    Earwig invites you to listen, to put out feelers, to scurry.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia’s wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave...
  • Vortex
    Review preview for Vortex

    The most restrained and yet audacious, unadorned and still intelligent picture the Argentinian auteur has made.

    Levan Tskhovrebadze · 4 out of 5
    Drama focused on a handful of dark days in the lives of an elderly couple in Paris.
  • Between Two Worlds
    Review preview for Between Two Worlds

    Binoche gives her all, stripping away any vestiges of actressy pretence to assimilate herself in the community while at the same time investing her performance with an authentic conviction.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women.
  • The Good Boss
    Review preview for The Good Boss

    The balance of Javier Bardem's central performance as the CEO of the title is what elevates this from being another run-of-the-mill satire.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Trouble brews at a factory after a boss finds himself in line for an award for excellence.
  • Blue Moon
    Review preview for Blue Moon

    Chitu gives a quietly dignified performance, gradually letting us see Irina’s strength through her resilience.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A young woman struggles to access higher education and escape the violence of her dysfunctional family.
  • Carajita
    Review preview for Carajita

    The actors make grieving palpable, as sure and solid as the colours caught by Ivan Gierasinchuk.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Sara and her nanny Yarisa have a relationship that seems to transcend their class condition but an accident will test their loyalty.
  • Red Rocket
    Review preview for Red Rocket

    The grooming of Strawberry may have some moments of levity but that, in many ways, makes it all the more uncomfortable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A washed-up ex-porn star tries to get his life back together in his hometown, sparking trouble for those in his orbit.
  • Benediction
    Review preview for Benediction

    Running alongside the film's more elegiac sweep is a cut-glass wit.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Siegfried Sassoon biopic.
  • The Souvenir: Part II
    Review preview for The Souvenir: Part II

    Hogg has always had an eye for architectural as well as emotional spaces and we see it here, as she floods the large rooms of Julie's parents' home with light, so that she almost seems to be paling out of them, which, coupled with her often silent reactions as others babble around her makes it seem as though she is the one who might be the ghost.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
  • The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
    Review preview for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye

    The real and the performed run so close together that, by the end of the film, it's not entirely clear if even Tammy knows where one ends and the other starts.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.

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