The 72nd San Sebastian Movie Pageant’s Golden Shell for finest movie has gone to Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude, a documentary on bullfighting, as an alternative of narrative options from Joshua Oppenheimer, Edward Berger and Mike Leigh.
The Spanish director based mostly his movie on the lifetime of Peruvian-Spanish bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey, which has been hailed by critics as visceral and spellbinding. It beat Leigh’s Laborious Truths and Berger’s Conclave, in addition to Oppenheimer’s dystopian musical The Finish.
Elsewhere, Pamela Anderson and the forged of Gia Coppola’s The Final Showgirl took dwelling the Particular Jury Prize for finest ensemble forged. The Hollywood Reporter‘s assessment of the movie mentioned: “Even when The Final Showgirl feels slender total, extra constantly attentive to aesthetics and environment than psychological profundity, there’s transferring empathy in its portrait of [Las Vegas dancer] Shelly and ladies like her, their sense of self crumbling as they turn into cruelly devalued.”
The Silver Shell for finest director went to Laura Carreira for On Falling, her movie a few Portuguese employee in a Scottish warehouse navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig financial system, and to Pedro Martin-Calero for The Wailing, which focuses on a gaggle of younger individuals who inadvertently resurrect an invisible evil.
Patricia López Arnaiz gained the Silver Shell for finest main efficiency in Glimmers and Pierre Lottin earned the equal prize for finest supporting efficiency in When Fall is Coming.
Among the many different awards had been finest screenplay for François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo, When Fall is Coming, and the New Administrators Award for Piet Baumgartner’s Bagger Drama. The Horizontes Latinos Award was given to Luis Ortega’s Kill the Jockey. Finest cinematography was awarded to Piao Songri for Sure in Heaven.
The pageant ran this 12 months from Sept. 20-28, wrapping up with Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh’s We Reside in Time. Honorary awards went to Cate Blanchett, Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar on the city’s Kursaal Theater.
See THR‘s full San Sebastian protection right here.
