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Donostiako 64. Zinemaldiaren Egunkaria Diario De La 64 Edición Del Festival DONOSTIAKO 64. ZINEMALDIAREN EGUNKARIA DIARIO DE LA 64 EDICIÓN DEL FESTIVAL www.sansebastianfestival.com Martes, 20 de septiembre de 2016 Nº 5 ZINEMALDIA 2 ARGAZKIAK Asteartea, 2016ko irailaren 20a FOTOS ZINEMALDIAREN EGUNKARIA PICTURES MONTSE G. CASTILLO Bigas Lunak nolabait ezagutzera eman zituen, Javier Bardem eta Jordi Mollá aktoreak, atzo iritsi ziren Donostiara zuzendaria omentzera. ALEX ABRIL ASIER GARMENDIA IRITSIERAK LLEGADAS ARRIVALS HOTEL MARÍA CRISTINA Sigourney Weaver 13:30 Juan Antonio Bayona 20:00 Hirokazu Kore-Eda 23:50 Kirin Kiki 23:50 HOTEL LONDRES Alejandro Sieveking 09:50 Emiliano Torres 11:00 Dave Johns 12:40 El controvertido cineasta Paul Verhoeven, trae al Hayley Squires 16:35 Festival su película de la mano de Isabelle Huppert. Nicolás Durán 19:10 Alejandro Goic 19:10 Takuji Masuda zuzendaria Bunker77 fi lma erakutsiko du Savage Sailean. GORKA ESTRADA El director estadounidense Miles Joris- Peyrafi tte, compite en la Sección Ofi cial con su película As you are. ASIER GARMENDIA MONTSE G. CASTILLO Nacho Vigalondok lehiaketaz kanpo, Anne Hathaway aktorea protagonista duen, Colossal fi lma aurkezten du. El jovencísimo actor Charlie Heaton, protagonista en As you are, muy simpático con prensa y público. 4 SAIL OFIZIALA Asteartea, 2016ko irailaren 20a SECCIÓN OFICIAL ZINEMALDIAREN EGUNKARIA OFFICIAL SECTION ALGUNAS ENSOÑACIONES Y EVASIONES EN PLENO FESTIVAL QUIM CASAS ll Ma vie de courgette, la delica- Kimi no Na wa / Your name da animación de Claude Barra; Ki- mi no Na wa/Your Name, un ani- me fantástico-musical, y La Tortue rouge, un filme del célebre estudio japonés Ghibli realizado por el ho- landés Michael Dudok De Witt (la primera vez que un europeo penetra Ma vie de courgette en los mágicos dominios de Hayao Miyazaki e Isao Takahata), consoli- dan el encanto que el Festival siente por el cine de dibujos animados; el huella indeleble en el Festival, la se- diló en el serial. En contraste, para año pasado se presentó a concurso gunda se proyectará los últimos días volver a poner los pies en el suelo y El niño y la bestia, Mamoru Hoso- del certamen y la tercera abandonó acercarse a algunos aspectos de la da. Como ocurre con el documen- ayer Donostia para volar hacia otros más terrible realidad, dos excelentes tal, la animación, que no es un gé- festivales y salas. películas presentes en la retrospec- nero sino una forma de representar Algo del encanto naif de estas tiva temática: Hunger, con Michael la realidad o la fantasía en cine, lleva películas de animación lo encon- Fassbender encarnando a un preso tiempo codeándose con la ficción y tramos en dos de los títulos que se irlandés en huelga de hambre –un la imagen real. Los festivales lo ates- proyectan hoy en la retrospectiva filme que va más allá de los límites tiguan y ya no hay extrañeza cuando dedicada a Jacques Becker, los dos estrictos del cine político para con- una sala se llena en pleno certamen únicos que el realizador francés hi- vertirse en una experiencia física– y para ver un anime abigarrado, una zo en color: una fantasía arábiga so- S-21: la máquina roja de matar, o delicia europea, una fábula o una bre Alí Babá, los cuarenta ladrones cómo un director camboyano que fantasía cósmica hechas con anima- y la cueva que se abre al grito de perdió la inocencia y la juventud en ción minimalista o con explosión “¡Ábrete, Sésamo!”, y una hedonis- tiempos de los jemeres rojos, Rithy La Tortue rouge de colores. La primera aún puede ta aventura de Arsène Lupin, el la- Panh, logra que un torturador expli- disfrutarse hoy y está dejando una drón de guante blanco que encan- que sus crímenes ante la cámara. l Martes, 20 de septiembre de 2016 SAIL OFIZIALA 5 DIARIO DEL FESTIVAL SECCIÓN OFICIAL OFFICIAL SECTION QUE DIOS NOS PERDONE • (España) Rodrigo Sorogoyen (director) Isabel Peña (coguionista), Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, María Ballesteros (intérpretes) Mercedes Gamero, Gerardo Herrero (productores) SOROGOYEN: “NUESTRA INTENCIÓN FUE HACER UN THRILLER DE PERSONAJES” MONTSE G. CASTILLO JAIME IGLESIAS ll Hace tres años, Stockholm, una pequeña producción cofi nanciada en régimen de crowdfunding y pre- sentada en el festival de Málaga (de donde salió con los galardones a la mejor actriz y al mejor director) dio la sorpresa en la temporada española de premios e impulsó el nombre de su realizador, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, a quien, de la noche a la mañana, co- menzaron a llegarle mensajes de pro- ductores interesados en conocer si tenía algún nuevo proyecto en men- te: “Después de una película tan pe- queña como Stockholm, enfrentar- te a un proyecto de la magnitud de Que dios nos perdone genera un poco de presión, la verdad. Pero al mismo tiempo resulta liberador tener a un equipo de producción tan solvente detrás de ti y no tener que centrar- te en nada que no sea el rodaje en sí, para el que además cuentas con un tiempo de preparación largo que lue- go hace que todo sea más sencillo”, reconoció Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Y ese respaldo se lo ofrecieron los produc- tores Mercedes Gamero (de Atres- Media) y Gerardo Herrero (de Tor- El equipo de la película española Que dios nos perdone. nasol Films) que ayer acompañaron a Sorogoyen en la presentación de la película ante los medios: “Más allá de que me gustasen los trabajos ante- riores de Rodrigo, lo que me animó a producir esta película es que era un intención, en todo momento, fue ha- y las manifestaciones derivadas del pleno de inseguridades y torpezas thriller, un género que a mí siempre cer un thriller de personajes. Es de- 15-M como telón de fondo. “De en- Ë “la película lo que en su vida persona l, lastrado por un me ha gustado, sobre todo cuando, cir, queríamos que los dos policías trada, es interesante explorar las po- cuenta es un viaje tartamudeo pertinaz y una existen- como en este caso, toca temas socia- protagonistas tuvieran un desarrollo sibilidades que ofrece un escenario cia llena de complejos; el segundo, les”, confesó Herrero. más allá de la investigación que están urbano tomado al asalto, durante hacia la comprensión, un hombre violento cuyo sentido del El buen momento que vive el cine llevando a cabo. Yo creo que la pelí- unos pocos días, por un millón y hacia el amor y honor le conduce a estallidos de furia policiaco en España (con obras co- cula lo que cuenta es un viaje hacia la pico de personas. Es un elemento en una profesión que parece domi- mo No habrá paz para los malva- comprensión, hacia el amor y hacia que confi ere un punto caótico y di- hacia el perdón” nada por la corrupción y la dejadez dos o La isla mínima presentadas el perdón. Eso es lo que une a todos ferenciador a la narración”, explicó funcionarial. “La violencia en esta con éxito en anteriores ediciones del los protagonistas de esta historia”. el director del fi lme. Para Isabel Peña película y en estos personajes creo Zinemaldia), también ocupó parte (coguionista de Que dios nos per- to Sorogoyen como su coguionista que es el resultado de lo aprendido y de la rueda de prensa. Rodrigo Soro- LA REALIDAD COMO INSPIRACIÓN done), “lo apasionante fue compro- quisieron dejar claro que su película lo no aprendido”, subrayó Antonio goyen explicó que para él el género La acción de la película se sitúa en bar cómo las diferentes piezas que no está inspirada en hechos reales de la Torre a la par que agradeció no es más que un soporte para na- Madrid durante el verano de 2011, componen la trama iban encajando como algún periodista apuntó obse- el trabajo de preparación que hizo rrar confl ictos humanos: “Nuestra con la visita papal de Benedicto XVI en ese contexto”. En todo caso, tan- sionado por encontrar paralelismos para su interpretación al lado de entre el criminal investigado por la un miembro de la Fundación Es- pareja de policías que protagoniza pañola de la Tartamudez. Roberto el fi lme y José Antonio Rodríguez Álamo, por su parte, aseguró no ha- TAKING THE LEAP FROM STOCKHOLM TO MADRID Vega, apodado ‘el mataviejas’, un ber sentido ningún miedo a la hora famoso serial killer español de los de encarnar un personaje tan com- Three years ago Stockholm, put him under a bit of pressure, but it also tackled social issues. años 80: “No hay tanta relación en- plejo como el de Alfaro: “Cuando a small fi lm co-fi nanced by that it was liberating to have such One of the aspects that the tre aquel caso y el que se narra en la tengo miedo es cuando acepto un crowdfunding won several prizes a dependable production team journalists at the press conference película. No nos hemos basado en papel acuciado por la situación de at the Malaga Film Festival and behind him so he didn’t have to that Sorogoyen gave yesterday él ni en ningún otro de una manera mi cuenta corriente. Este no fue el from that moment on the director, concentrate on anything that wasn’t is the impressive on-screen directa”, dijo Isabel Peña. caso: aquí había un guion que lo- Rodrigo Sorogoyen, began to the shooting process itself. His chemistry between Antonio de Uno de los aspectos que más des- gró emocionarme hasta la lágrima. receive messages from producers producers Mercedes Gamero and la Torre and Roberto Álamo, the tacaron los periodistas presentes en Fue un proyecto que viví excitado y interested in fi nding out whether Gerardo Herrero also accompanied two leading actors in the fi lm.
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