François Ozon takes on the ultimate challenge: translating Meursault’s enigmatic indifference from page to screen, crafting a faithful and unsettling adaptation of Albert Camus’s famous 1942 novel.
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‘The Stranger’ San Sebastian Review: Bringing Meursault to Life on Screen
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‘Sundays’ San Sebastian Review: Faith, Doubt and a Teenage Calling
At 17, Ainara believes she hears God’s voice and wants to join a cloistered convent. Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s film captures her determination with humor, mystery, and empathy, refusing to judge whether faith is delusion or destiny.
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‘The Fence’ San Sebastian Review: Claire Denis’s Uneven Return to Africa
The French director adapts Bernard-Marie Koltès’s ‘Black Battles with Dogs’ into a desert standoff between a foreman (Matt Dillon) and a local man (Isaach de Bankolé) demanding his brother’s body. What might have worked on stage plays out on screen as a repetitive duel that drains rather than deepens the conflict.
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‘Couture’ San Sebastian Review: Angelina Jolie Leads Alice Winocour’s Patchwork of Fashion Stories
Between glossy runways and fragile bodies, the drama reveals the pressure, ambition, and vulnerability behind the glamour of Paris Fashion Week.
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‘Dolores’ San Sebastian Review: A Family Drama in Three Generations
Marcelo Gomes teams up with Maria Clara Escobar for a family drama about three women whose lives oscillate between harsh realities and fragile dreams. At once tender and unsettling, the film explores addictions, fractured bonds, and the longing to escape.
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‘Redoubt’: San Sebastián Review: A Fortress of Solitude
A solitary farmer turns obsession into a fortress in this austere and luminous black-and-white tale. John Skoog’s film transforms Cold War paranoia into a strangely tender allegory of survival.
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‘Limpia’ San Sebastian Review: A Subtle Tale of Power and Dependence (Netflix)
Dominga Sotomayor crafts a restrained yet piercing portrait of a live-in maid whose silent endurance collides with the subtle cruelties of class. Netflix releases the film worldwide in October.
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‘Los Tigres’ San Sebastian Review: Alberto Rodríguez Explores the Perils of Life Underwater
In this tense drama, Antonio de la Torre leads a crew of industrial divers whose dangerous profession collides with family secrets and the lure of crime.
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‘Two Pianos’ San Sebastian Review: Desplechin Strikes a Chord Between Mystery and Melodrama
Arnaud Desplechin’s latest film blends mystery and intimate drama, following a pianist whose return home sets off a spiral of secrets, obsessions, and family reckonings.
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‘Six Days in Spring’ San Sebastian Review: Family Secrets in the Sunlight
A mother, her twins, and a risky secret holiday form the heart of Joachim Lafosse’s new drama. ‘Six Days in Spring’ turns a seaside escape into a tense story of family fractures and fragile bonds.



