San Sebastian reviews
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‘The Rye Horn’: San Sebastian Review
Jaione Camborda’s second, elemental feature wins the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival
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‘Dance First’: San Sebastian Review
Gabriel Byrne is transformed into Samuel Beckett for James Marsh’s stylised look back at the Irish writer’s life
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‘The Practice’: San Sebastian Review
A burnt-out yoga teacher searches for new enlightenment in this Chile-set wellness satire
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‘Kalak’: San Sebastian Review
A tough story of sexual abuse anchors Isabella Eklöf’s Greenland-set follow-up to ’Holiday’
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‘The Successor’: San Sebastian Review
Marc-Andre Grondin impresses as a lauded fashion designer forced back down to his roots in Xavier Legrand’s twisted art thriller
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‘Un Amor’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Coixet returns to Spain for this dark adaptation of Sara Mesa’s best-selling novel starring Laia Costa
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‘MMXX’: San Sebastian Review
Cristi Puiu’s four-chapter plunge into Romania’s year of Covid-19 is ‘a heavyweight head-scratcher’
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‘They Shot The Piano Player’: San Sebastian Review
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal return to South America and a bossa nova pianist who mysteriously disappeared in 1976
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‘Sultana’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review
Isabel Heguera’s enchanting animation springs off a 1905 Muslim feminist text
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‘A Silence’: San Sebastian Review
Joaquin LaFosse lines up Daniel Auteil and Emmanuelle Devos to retell Belgium’s grim ’Hissel Affair’
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‘Ex-Husbands’: San Sebastian Review
Griffin Dunne and James Norton star in this wry, accessible comedy of male melancholy
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‘Stories Not To Be Told’: San Sebastian Review
Cesc Gay hits his comfort zone and parks there for this half-throttle film of five stories
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‘Marlowe’: San Sebastian Review
Neil Jordan drafts in Liam Neeson for one more turn with Hollywood’s original hard-boiled private eye
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‘Trenque Lauquen’: San Sebastian Review
Laura Citarella’s two linked features search for a missing woman in the pampa who might not want to be found
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‘The Kings Of The World’: San Sebastian Review
Laura Mora’s second feature follows five street kids from Medellin into the Colombian countyside as they try to claim what is theirs
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‘The Rite Of Spring’: San Sebastian Review
Spain’s Fernando Franco explores the unconventional relationship between an insecure woman and a man with cerebal palsy
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‘Walk Up’: San Sebastian Review
A middle-aged film director attempts to find a place to truly belong in the latest work from Hong Sang-soo
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‘Great Yarmouth - Provisional Figures’: San Sebastian Review
Portuguese director Marco Martins presents a damning look at immigrant life in modern Britain
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‘La Maternal’: San Sebastian Review
Pilar Palomero follows up ‘Schoolgirls’ with this intimate portrait of young Spanish mothers
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‘Suro’: San Sebastian Review
A Spanish couple attempt to make a new life on the land in Mikel Gurrea’s feature debut