Glenn Close will not preside over the San Sebastian Festival and is replaced by an Argentine

A family problem will prevent Glenn Close from attending the San Sebastian Film Festival this year. The actress has decided to step down as president of the jury in this edition for “family emergency”and so he denounced it.

In its place, the Argentine producer will preside over the jury of the 70th edition Matias Mosteirin, who will be the president of the official jury of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The emblematic film exhibition will be held from 16 to 24 September in the city of northern Spain.

Mosteirín is the director of K&S Films and has to his credit many of the Argentine film productions of the last decades, such as Bolivia, by Adriano Caetano world of cranesby Pablo Trapero, The swampby Lucrezia Martel wild talesby Damian Szifron The rangeby Santiago Miter, e The angelby Luis Ortega, among others.

With an impressive career, Mosterirín most recently also served as an executive producer on the series The kingdom, by Marcelo Piñeyro, for Netflix. In 2021, he received the Platinum Konex Award for his career in the industry.

For his part, Glenn Close explained: “I am deeply sorry not to be able to participate in the Festival, because there has been a family emergency for which I have to stay at home”.

Faced with the impossibility of visiting San Sebastián, the actress of films like Fatal Attraction Y Dangerous relationshipsamong many others, he added: “I apologize to the Festival, the jury, the directors, the Donostia Awards and the Festival audience for not being able to be there to celebrate with you all”.

The official jury chaired by the Argentine producer is completed by casting director and director Antoinette Boulat (France), director and screenwriter Tea Lindeburg (Denmark), writer and journalist Rosa Montero (Spain), director and visual artist Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese ( Lesotho) and director and screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland).

Surprise

The decision of the protagonist of 101 Dalmatians He took everyone by surprise, given that last week he expressed his “enthusiasm” on social media for having presided over the jury of this competition, the most international in Spain. But, at the last minute, he sent a message to the organization to communicate his leave, without specifying what was the emergency that prevents him from traveling.

Santiago Loza, Laura Citarella and Andrés Di Tella are some of the Argentines who will participate in the Festival in this edition, in different sections. will present the terracotta Girlfriends on a country road; Laura Citarella will do the same Trenque Lauquén while Di Tella will take diaries, a series of short pieces premiered at the latest edition of the BAFICI festival.

Expectations for Glenn Close’s presence in San Sebastián will remain for a future edition. On the other hand, 35 years after the debut of Fatal AttractionAdrian Lyne’s iconic erotic thriller, which starred her, is making a series inspired by that story and produced by Paramount.

“I hope they tell about his past …” Close said of Alex, his famous character. “You are a human being who needs a lot of help. I hope she sees herself as a kinder woman, far from the ‘crazy’ stereotype because she is a fragile person “, she clarified.

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