73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival: 52 publications

Victor Fraga - 07-12-2025

Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan violate the conventions of dance and drama, in this unabashedly experimental movie - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-09-2025

These are the winners, our dirty favourites and the loudest turkeys at the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festivals, which our editor Victor Fraga describes as the strongest edition of the event has ever attended [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 27-09-2025

Jodie Foster is the unhinged shrink from hell, in this silly and fun French psychological thriller - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 27-09-2025

British academic gets trapped in Poland just as the communist regime imposes martial law, in this interesting (if barely enlightening) marriage of horror and political thriller - closing film at the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 27-09-2025

Resembling an audiovisual installation, Hlynur Pálmason's featurette turns the effigy of a viking knight into a vulnerable French martyr - from the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 26-09-2025

Crisp 4k restoration of first widescreen musical of communist China, the story of a ethnic woman kidnapped after refusing an arranged marriage, premieres at the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 26-09-2025

Mexican miner of few words is convinced that he has respiratory problems, in this distinctive character study with a touch a deadpan - from the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-09-2025

Young and lonely officer infiltrates Basque terrorist group to explosive results, in this measured and finely crafted police thriller (which doubles down as an enlightening comment on democracy) - now on Netflix [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-09-2025

Tiny, multiethnic and once quiet and peaceful community gets squeezed by Barcelona's sprawling urbanisation, in José Luis Guerin's austere and observational doc - from the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-09-2025

GOLDEN SHELL WINNER Spectacular Basque drama proposes Catholic faith as a valid liberation path, thereby questioning progressive "freedom" ideals - from the Official Competition of the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-09-2025

Colin Farrell plays an alcohol and casino addict hiding in Macao, in Edward Berger's silly thriller, with a toxic message for gamblers - on Netflix on Monday, October 27th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-09-2025

Murderer seeking to reconnect with her child plays a fictionalised version of herself, in this brave, sincere and controversial piece of autofiction - from the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-09-2025

Starring a superb, German-speaking Russell Crowe, James Vanderbilt's historical drama about Hermann Goering's Nuremberg trial reminds viewers that "evil" doesn't always wear a Nazi uniform - on VoD on Friday, January 9th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-09-2025

Japanese study of accidents and serial killers blends horror and psychological thriller devices, while boasting a tremendous music score - from the Official Competition of the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 23-09-2025

Milagros Mumenthaler's new creation is a solemn, morose and elliptical meditation on suicide, depression and emotional isolation - from the Official Competition of the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 23-09-2025

Argentina's judiciary crucifies the victim of a miscarriage, in this mostly effective blend of courtroom and activist drama - in cinemas on Friday, November 7th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-09-2025

Agnieszka Holland delivers a disjointed and toothless biopic of one of the most subversive writers ever - from the Official Competition of the 73rd San Sebastian International Folm festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-09-2025

Stroke throws a spanner into the hedonistic life of an older gay man, in this superb Basque drama bursting with humanism, empathy and candid sex - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-09-2025

Vicarious pleasures shape the lives of three generations of Brazilian women, in this tender tale of broken dreams - from the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-09-2025

Awkwardness prevails as a foreign dad takes his children on holiday abroad, in this highly engaging and entertaining study of emotional isolation - from the Official Competition of the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-09-2025

Angelina Jolie and South Sudanese newcomer Anyier Anei star in tender French-American drama about the pitfalls of fashion and the pains of cancer - from the Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-09-2025

Claire Denis's new creation is a cryptic, sombre and solemn allegory of modern-day colonialism in West Africa - from the Official Competition of the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-09-2025

Arnaud Desplechin mixes stage performance, career ambitions, unrequited love and death to awful results (thereby wasting Charlotte Rampling's talents), in this pointless psychological thriller - from the Official Competition at San Sebastian [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-09-2025

Indomitable diver slips into drug traficking in order regain partial custody of his daughters, in this Spanish blend of underwater thriller and family drama - from the Official Competition of the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-09-2025

Black mother takes her children and new lover to a forbidden family holiday in her former in-law's St Tropez villa, in this quiet family "heist" drama - from the Official Competition at the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-09-2025

Eccentric octogenarian fights for her freedom after her two greedy daughters lock her up in a "nuthouse", in this Argentinian study of justice and sanity - opening film at the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2025

Five-year-old girl trapped inside car with six dead relatives begs for help over the telephone, in Kaouther Ben Hania's horrifyingly real register of the Gaza Genocide - in cinemas on Friday, January 16th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 02-09-2025

François Ozon's screen adaptation of Albert Camus's meditation on indifference is as quiet and dark as its protagonist - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 31-08-2025

Quiet spin doctor helps Putin to strengthen his grip on power, in Olivier Assayas's star-studded and lifeless political thriller - from the 5th Red Sea International Fil;m Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 31-08-2025

"Erased" indigenous community faces an uphill struggle for justice after self-appointed "landowners" murder one of their leaders - Lucrecia Martel showcases her activist doc in various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2025

Repulsive, mumbling creature morphs into a virile and eloquent wonder, in Guillermo del Toro’s extremely ambitious adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece - in cinemas on Friday, October 17th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 28-08-2025

George Clooney stars as a movie actor who can only play himself, in this metatextual tribute to the American superstar - unimaginative Hollywood drama is in cinemas on Friday, November 14th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 27-08-2025

Sorrentino's study of physical, moral and political decay uses the moribund presidential office of Italy as its subject (the outcome, however, is barely political) - from REC Tarragona [Read More...]

Lida Bach - 09-07-2025

Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason explores a family’s break-up with stoical patience, enticing imagery and a quirky sense of humour - from various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-06-2025

The director of Sex and Lucia returns with a hyperbolical allegory of Spanish history, populated with charming characters - from San Sebastian [Read More...]

Lida Bach - 16-06-2025

Empathetic Spanish drama exposes the tensions between deaf ceramist Ángela and her abled partner Héctor after their first child is born - in cinemas on Friday, September 12th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2025

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in this loud tale of failed motherhood and female insanity - in cinemas on Friday, November 7th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2025

Eighteen-year-old Marina retraces the footsteps of her biological parents in Galicia (Northwestern Spain) - Carla Simon's heartbreakingly honest, semi-autobiographical new film shows in various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-05-2025

GRAND PRIX WINNER AT CANNES: Seventy-year-old filmmaker is hellbent on finishing his first movie in a decade, as Joachim's Trier comments on the complex relationship between artistry and humanity - in cinemas on Friday, December 26th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-05-2025

PALME d'OR WINNER - Torture survivors accidentally kidnap their apparent tormentor of yore, in Panahi’s meditation on the ethics and the dynamics of revenge (with a message for Iranian censors and thugs) - in cinemas on Friday, November 5th [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 19-05-2025

A recovering alcoholic and former poet is charmed by a student's writings, but finds himself in hot water when she too takes to wine - from Tallinn [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-05-2025

Roma teen contends with the multiple threats affecting his family and "the largest slum of Europe" - Spanish drama with touches of Neorealism shows at San Sebastian [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-05-2025

BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR WINNER AT CANNES: Kleber Medonca Filho's crime drama about a dignified researcher on the run pays tribute to the films and the cinemas of yore, while also celebrating the director's native Recife, in Northeastern Brazil - from various festivals [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 19-05-2025

A homeless man with addiction issues is given a second chance, but life in London threatens to send him plunging down, in Harris Dickinson's impressive directorial debut - in cinemas on Friday, October 3rd [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 18-05-2025

George Orwell's musings on authoritarianism and state manipulation are juxtaposed against flashing cards, film clips and historical footage from the past 100 years - Raoul Peck's extraordinary new doc shows at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 17-05-2025

Richard Linklater transports viewers back to the Paris and the Cannes of 1960, in his charming tribute to Jean-Luc Godard (mind: he occasionally betrays the spirit of the late French filmmaker) - from various festivals. [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 16-05-2025

In 1980s' Chile, the child of a queer family wants to discover the cause of the "plague" villagers talk about - dazzling drama shows in various film festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-05-2025

European whims are shattered into pieces, in Oliver Laxe's hauntingly beautiful and disturbing allegory of life on the edge - showing at various film festivals [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 11-05-2025

An actor is haunted by their character's ghost, in this metatextual dreamscape and comment on Portuguese history - from IndieLisboa, Karlovy Vary and San Sebastian [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2025

Teen fugitive seeks shelter in a film studio, in Lucile Hadžihalilović's ice-cold, cryptic and laborious new creation - in cinemas on Friday, November 21st [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2024

BEST INTERNATIONAL PICTURE OSCAR WINNER: In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama - on VoD on Monday, April 21st [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 25-05-2024

A boat full of cats, dogs and birds struggle to survive, in a world drowning under floods - Oscar-winning Latvian animation is on VoD on Friday, April 25th [Read More...]