EGOYAN’S ‘CHLOE’ TO OPEN SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL
AZG DAILY
29-08-2009
Culture
Canadian director Adam Egoyan’s psychological drama "Chloe" starring
Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore will open the San Sebastian film
festival next month, the organisers announced Friday.
Another north American film, "Get Low" by first-time feature director
Aaron Schneider and starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray, will
also be among the 15 entries competing for the top Golden Shell award
this year.
The 57th edition of the San Sebastian festival, the oldest and most
prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world, takes place from September
18 to 26 in the coastal city in northern Spain.
French director Bruno Dumont, who has twice won the Cannes Grand Jury
Prize, will also be competing with "Hadewijch".
Two other top French filmmakers, Francois Ozon and Christophe Honore,
will also be showing their latest works — "Le Refuge" and "Making
Plans for Lena".
Asia is represented by Chinese director Lu Chuan’s "City of Life
and Death", "Yeong-do Da Ri" ("I Came From Busan") by South Korea’s
Jeon Soo-il, and Iran’s Mohammad Rasoulof with "Keshtzarhaye sepid"
("The White Meadows").
Australian filmmaker Ana Kokkinos’s will present her third feature
"Blessed".
Last year’s Golden Shell for best film went to Turkish director Yesim
Ustaoglu’s film "Pandora’s Box".