Announced on Tuesday, the Toronto Int. Film Festival has padded another four Spanish produced or co-produced titles to their 2010 edition. In the Contemporary World Cinema section, we have the International Premiere for Achero Mañas's Anything You Want aka Todo Lo Que Quieras. Mañas, a former actor, returns to fiction after directing the documentary “Blackwhite” in 2004, his latest film tells the story of how a lawyer (Juan Diego Botto from The Dancer Upstairs) undergoes an identity metamorphosis in order to please and secure the emotional stability of his daughter - this after the sudden death of her mother. In a recent interview for film magazine Fotogramas the director declared: "I talk about ambiguity. Of a change in the role of man that puts him in the most ambiguous and insecure place…" and "the change of the man in modern society, which I think is one of the most radical changes of the last years.
- 8/27/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
MADRID -- A clutch of fresh Spanish talent will see its films debut in the 53rd San Sebastian International Film Festival's official section, festival organizers said Friday as they announced the first batch of films in competition. The titles announced for the official competition all belong to Spanish films and "are directed by young moviemakers, ensuring the generational change essential to all cinematographies," according to the festival's statement. Chema de la Pena and Gabriel Velazquez's Sud Express (South Express), Manuel Martin Cuenca's Malas Temporadas (Bad Times) and Alberto Rodriguez's Siete Virgines (Seven Virgins) will participate in the competition, along with two Spanish co-productions: Fabian Bielinsky's El Aura and Farida Benlyazid's La Vida Perra de Juanita Narboni (The Dog's Life of Juanita Narboni).
MADRID -- A clutch of fresh Spanish talent will see its films debut in the 53rd San Sebastian International Film Festival's official section, festival organizers said Friday as they announced the first batch of films in competition. The titles announced for the official competition all belong to Spanish films and "are directed by young moviemakers, ensuring the generational change essential to all cinematographies," according to the festival's statement. Chema de la Pena and Gabriel Velazquez's Sud Express (South Express), Manuel Martin Cuenca's Malas Temporadas (Bad Times) and Alberto Rodriguez's Siete Virgines (Seven Virgins) will participate in the competition, along with two Spanish co-productions: Fabian Bielinsky's El Aura and Farida Benlyazid's La Vida Perra de Juanita Narboni (The Dog's Life of Juanita Narboni).
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