San Sebastián (Spain), Aug 5 (EFE) .- Films by Todd Haynes, François Ozon, Céline Sciamma and Paul Verhoeven will participate in the “Perlak” section of the 69 San Sebastián Film Festival (north), which will also host two titles applauded at the last Cannes event, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” and Julia Ducournau’s “Titane”, which won the Palme d’Or.
A total of fifteen “pearls” will be selected for the next edition of the contest, which will be held from September 17 to 25.
Sean Baker, Joachim Lafosse, Louis Garrel and Xavier Giannoli, as well as the writer Emmanuel Carrère, who will present his second fiction as director, are other names for “Perlak”, as well as the debuts of Shipei Wen and Charlotte Gainsbourg, reported the Zinemaldia in a statement.
“Official Competition”, by the Argentines Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn and starring the Spaniards Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, will open this section that includes outstanding titles that have passed through other competitions.
Duprat and Cohn compete for the Audience Award with a tragicomedy set in the world of cinema that was previously shown in Venice. In it, Cruz plays an eccentric filmmaker and Banderas and Oscar Martínez, a Hollywood actor and a radical theater performer, respectively.
Out of competition will be presented “The Velvet Underground”, Todd Haynes’ documentary about the mythical group of Lou Reed, which has been chosen to close the “pearls” of this 2021.
As special screenings, also out of competition, include “the two most important films of this year and also the most applauded at the last Cannes Film Festival”: “Titane”, by Ducournau, “unclassifiable mixture of genres” starring Agathe Rouselle and Vincent Lindon, and “Drive My Car”, an adaptation of a short story by Murakami that won the award for best screenplay and the Fipresci award at the French festival.
Hamaguchi will do a double in “Perlak”, as he will also present, this time in competition, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy”, with which this year he won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Berlinale and which is made up of a triptych of united stories ” for memory, deception and destiny. “
After “Portrait of a Woman on Fire”, which passed through the section in 2019, the French director Céline Sciamma, returns with “Petite maman”, which narrates the friendship between two girls and which was also part of the official Berlin competition.
Joining the list are three directors who have competed in the Zinemaldia Official Selection in recent years: the Belgian Joachim Lafosse and the French François Ozon and Louis Garrel.
Ozon, winner of the 2012 Golden Shell and Jury Prize for Best Screenplay for “In the house,” will present a Cannes-competing drama about euthanasia, “Tout s’est bien passé,” while Garrel directs and stars in “La crisade”, which tells the story of a mysterious project with which children from all over the world set out to save the planet.
Lafosse will come with “Les unequilles”, in which he exposes how mental illness marks the relationship of a couple.
The Chinese Shipei Wen will arrive with his debut feature, screened at Cannes, “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”, A “hypnotic and twisted thriller that explores guilt and mercy, forgiveness and redemption.”
Another title from the Cannes competition is “Red Rocket,” by Sean Baker, director of “The Florida Project,” which chronicles the return of an adult film actor to his hometown in Texas.
It has also been rescued from the Cannes Official Selection “Benedetta”, which Paul Verhoeven has set in the 15th century to tell the story of a nun capable of working miracles.
From the new Premières section of the French competition, “Perlak” will host “Jane par Charlotte”, a documentary written and directed by actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, who in her first job as a director combines unpublished images, photographs and interviews to create a portrait of his mother, Jane Birkin.
Emmanuel Carrère, the last Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, presents “On a Normandy Pier”, which was part of the last Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and is a free adaptation of a book by Florence Aubenas in which a writer becomes go through as a cleaner to conduct an investigation into job insecurity.
Xavier Giannoli, whose debut “Les corps impatients” passed through New Directors in 2003, will present, after passing through Venice, “The Lost Illusions”, based on the homonymous novel by Honoré de Balzac. EFE
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