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San Sebastian Film Festival · 2023

San Sebastian Film Festival 2023

Classics

Programme

7 films · 1 review

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Aloïse

Story of a Swiss artist who was insitutionalised.

(Country: France; Year: 1975; Director: Liliane de Kermadec; Writer: André Téchiné, Liliane de Kermadec; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Delphine Seyrig, Marc Eyraud, Michael Lonsdale, Valérie Schoeller, Monique Lejeune, Julien Guiomar, Roger Blin, Jacques Debary, Roland Dubillard, Jacques Weber, Nita Klein, Hans Verner, Alice Reichen, François Chatelet)

The Beginning And The End

The story of a middle-class family struggling against poverty after the death of the patriarch.

(Year: 1993; Director: Arturo Ripstein; Writer: Paz Alicia Garciadiego, Najeeb Mahfouz; Stars: Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Blanca Guerra, Verónica Merchant, Bruno Bichir, Alberto Estrella, Alonso Echánove, Lucía Muñoz, Luis Felipe Tovar, Julián Pastor, Luisa Huertas, Jorge Fegán, Ernesto Yáñez, Alejandro Parodi, Darío T Pie)

Nine Queens (Neuve Reinas)

Review preview for Nine Queens

The film is like a Chinese box. There are secrets within secrets within secrets.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
Two small-time con artists in Buenos Aires attempt a high level rare stamps fraud.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2000; Director: Fabian Bielinsky; Writer: Fabian Bielinsky; Stars: Gaston Pauls, Ricardo Darin, Leticia Bredice, Tomas Fonzi)

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Record Of A Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku)

A lost boy is taken in after following someone home.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1947; Director: Yasujirō Ozu)

The Red Angel (Akai tenshi)

A young nurse is transformed from a rape victim into the titular angel when she starts gifting her patients with sexual relief before their inevitable death.

(Year: 1966; Director: Yasuzô Masumura)

Socialist Realism

A satirical reading of the process of the «Unidad Popular» of President Salvador Allende, prior to the military civic coup of 1973 in Chile.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2023; Director: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento; Writer: Cesare Pavese, Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento; Stars: Nemesio Antúnez, Marcial Edwards, Colectivo Obrero Elmo Catalán, Javier Maldonado, Rodrigo Maturana, Juan Carlos Moraga, Darío Pulgar, Jaime Reyes, Waldo Rojas, Jaime Vadell, Alfonso Varela, Trabajadores Industriales Vicuña Mackenna)

Spanish Fury (Furia española)

Barcelona Football Club, captained by Johann Cruyff, is on excellent form, prompting Sebastián to join a Barça supporters' club. There he meets the chairman's daughter, Juliana, who will make him hers, come what may. Finally the two are to marry, but as fate would have it, the wedding will coincide with the most important game of the league: El Clásico Barça-Madrid.

(Country: Spain; Year: 1975; Director: Francesc Betriu; Writer: Francesc Betriu, José Luis García Sánchez; Stars: Cassen, Mónica Randall, Carlos Ibarzábal, Ovidi Montllor, Rosa Gil, María Francia, Rosa Morata, Dolores Continente, Andrés García Lorca, Josefina Tapias, Juan Fernández, Sara Grey, Francisco Jarque, José Llasat, Manuel Muñiz)