The 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival’s Gelderlyen Shell for best film has gone to Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude, a write downary on bullbattling, instead of narrative features from Joshua Oppenheimer, Edward Berger and Mike Leigh.
The Spanish straightforwardor based his film on the life of Peruvian-Spanish bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey, which has been hailed by critics as visceral and spellobtaining. It beat Leigh’s Hard Truths and Berger’s Conclave, as well as Oppenheimer’s dystopian musical The End.
Elsewhere, Pamela Anderson and the cast of Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl took home the Special Jury Prize for best ensemble cast. The Hollywood Reporter‘s appraise of the film shelp: “Even if The Last Showgirl senses slfinisher overall, more reliablely attentive to aesthetics and atmosphere than psychoreasonable profundity, there’s moving comprehfinishing in its portrait of [Las Vegas dancer] Shelly and women appreciate her, their sense of self crumbling as they become nastyly decherishd.”
The Silver Shell for best straightforwardor went to Laura Carreira for On Falling, her film about a Portuguese laborer in a Scottish warehoinclude navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy, and to Pedro Martin-Calero for The Wailing, which cgo ines on a group of youthful people who inadvertently resurrect an inapparent evil.
Patricia López Arnaiz won the Silver Shell for best directing carry outance in Glimmers and Pierre Lottin geted the equivalent prize for best helping carry outance in When Fall is Coming.
Among the other awards were best screenpercreate for François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo, When Fall is Coming, and the New Directors Award for Piet Baumgartner’s Bagger Drama. The Horizontes Latinos Award was donaten to Luis Ortega’s Kill the Jockey. Best cinematography was awarded to Piao Songri for Bound in Heaven.
The festival ran this year from Sept. 20-28, wrapping up with Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh’s We Live in Time. Honorary awards went to Cate Blanchett, Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar at the town’s Kursaal Theater.
See THR‘s brimming San Sebastian coverage here.
