‘The Other Man’ to open San Sebastian film festival
MADRID (AFP) - British director Richard Eyre’s “The Other Man” starring Liam Neeson will open the San Sebastian Film Festival later this month, organisers said Wednesday.
The film, which will be screened out of competition on September 18, tells the tale of a man who discovers his wife has been receiving e-mails and text messages from an unknown rival played by Antonio Banderas.
Eyre movies include “Iris”, a 2001 biopic of writer and philosopher Iris Murdoc and the 2006 “Notes on a Scandal” about a teacher who gets involved with one of her underaged students.
US director Rian Johnson’s “The Brothers Bloom” about a last swindle carried out by two sibling con artists starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo will close the festival on September 27, organisers said in a statement.
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme will chair the jury at the 56th edition of the festival, the oldest and most prestigious event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world.
Demme, who collected an Academy Award in 1991 for “The Silence of the Lambs”, will also show his latest feature “Rachel Getting Married,” starring Anne Hathaway and Debra Winger, outside the official competition.
The organisers announced earlier this year the films that will compete for the top Golden Shell award.
They include British director Michael Winterbottom’s “Genova”, a ghost story starring Colin Firth; “Frozen River” by American Courtney Hunt, which won the Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance film festival; and “Fear Me Not” by Denmark’s Kristian Levring, one of the creators of the Dogme 95 movement.
Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf, a two-time winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, will compete with her fourth feature film “Two-Legged Horse.”
Other directors with films in competition include Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-edam, Turkey’s Yesim Ustaoglu, Argentina’s Daniel Burman, France’s Christophe Honore, Kim Ki-duk of South Korea and Palestinian Rashid Masharawi.
The festival will also feature retrospectives of the works of British filmmaker Terence Davies, director of “Distant Voices, Still Lives”, of the comedies of 93-year-old Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli and of Japanese post-war film noir.
Last year’s Golden Shell for best film went to Hong Kong-born Wayne Wang’s “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers”.
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