MADRID.- Australian actress Cate Blanchett This year it will be the image of the San Sebastian Festival and you will receive the award Donostia honorary to his career during the contest, which will take place from September 20 to 28, the organization announced today -May 9-.
“The festival, the most prominent in the Hispanic world, will thus praise one of the most relevant interpreters of contemporary cinematography, winner of two Oscars, four Bafta awards and four Golden Globes, among many others, in her three decades of career” , the festival said in a statement.
Cate Blanchett’s first visit to San Sebastián
Blanchett is the protagonist of the main poster of the contest in the Basque city, in the north of Spain, occupied almost its entire surface by the black and white profile of the artist.
This will be the first time that the Australian visits San Sebastián, known for her participation in both auteur and popular films, including Blue Jasmine, the Woody Allen; The Aviatorby Martin Scorsese; Carol, by Todd Haynes; or the trilogy of The Lord of the rings, de Peter Jackson.
Blanchett, 54, has worked under a panoply of renowned directors, in addition to those above, such as Terrence Malick, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Wes Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro.
At the 72nd edition of the San Sebastián Festival, Spanish actor Javier Bardem will also collect his Donostia Award, who could not attend last year to receive it due to the Hollywood actors’ strike, the organization noted.
The San Sebastian contest will open this year with the world premiere of a new feminist version of the classic erotic film from the 70s Emmanuelledirected by the French Audrey Diwan.
“Starring Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe, the adaptation is an exploration of pleasure in the post-Me Too era,” the festival detailed in a statement.
Source: AFP
