FANCINE HOSTS THE INTERNATIONAL PREMIER OF THE FRENCH THRILLER ‘NO ONE AND NOTHING’
The traditional film music concert and the musical performance of Santo Rostro band registers are full to capacity at the Teatinos campus.
It’s been a Friday involving premieres and lots of music at Fancine. The fantastic film festival of the University of Malaga has continued with its 33rd edition’s programme in an afternoon of meetings with guests and other parallel activities that not only have filled the screens of Albéniz but also the different venues of the event. At Alcazabilla Street, the event started at 4:30 p.m. with the second session of ‘Mars Express’, which was well received by the public, and the screening of the French-Iranian production ‘Hood Witch’, along with the premier of ‘Head Count’, in the Fanzriller section.
In this same section, the French film ‘No One and Nothing’ was screened at 7 p.m., whose international premier took place at the festival. Gallien Guibert and Paul Hamy, the director and the main actor of the film respectively, presented this story of abandonment and escape to the audience, with whom they were able to chat after the screening of the film. Among the details were revealed after the question and answer session, the creators explained that it had been a quick shoot, filming up to four scenes in the same day, and for which five different babies were needed, even with the help of an animatronic doll for the most dangerous scenes. Regarding the casting of the film, Guilbert confessed that he expressly wrote the script for Hamy, who later explained how he took on the role of a character so strongly marked by loneliness and the sense of emptiness he suffers from. After this first exhibition outside France, which kicks off the festival circuit, ‘No One and Nothing’ will be in cinemas in France in February.
Furthermore, the competition for the 9,000 euros prize that Fancine awards to the best film of the edition continued with the Korean film ‘Sleep’, Jason Yu’s debut film that presents a newly-wed couple expecting their first child whose routine is disrupted by his sudden somnambulism. As the problem continues to escalate, they decide to see a shaman, although the treatment has no effect. Overcome by anxiety, the young wife can barely sleep, in deep fear that she and the baby may be in danger. The screening, which was close to be fully packed, ended with a long applause from the audience.
The Sección Oficial has also been joined by ‘La chimera’, the newest project by Alice Rohrwacher (‘Lazzaro feliz’), a colourful tale starring Josh O’Connor and Isabella Rosellini. The producer offers once again in her fourth film, a very personal portrait of Italy, this time set in the Mediterranean countryside during the 1980s, to create a beautiful a picturesque story through a group singular characters that live off grave-robbing and trading Etruscan relics.
The event also had the third sold out of the edition: ‘Vampira humanista busca consentimiento suicida’ sold out at the 2nd screen with its tender plot starring a teenager who, despite feeding on blood, is too sensitive to kill her victims.
Simultaneously, two activities were carried out at the Teatinos campus that brought music to Fancine’s 33rd programme. The traditional film music concert of the festival took place this Friday at the Assembly Hall of E.T.S.I of Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering of the University of Málaga, by the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by José Luis López Antón. With a full capacity, the soundtracks of films like ‘Forrest Gump’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘Braveheart’, ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Star Wars’ brought the audience on their feet, moved by the performance of the musicians and the melodies of the orchestra. These films, among many others, sometimes become a place to take refuge and unwind, a ‘home, sweet home’ for López Antón, as the composer said when interspersing explanations with the pieces. After a very emotional applause and wishing ‘long life to Fancine and classic music’, the director concluded this spectacle.
And the Santo Rostro concert reunited Malaga’s rock scene at the Contenedor Cultural. The band presented their album ‘Después No Habrá Nada’, at an event where head banging was the protagonist among the audience. The three band members, from Málaga and Jaén, combined guitar, drums and vocals with very contrary elements to their musical genre, such as hand clap percussion.
Saturday 11th November programme
The weekend will bring another of the most eagerly awaited events in the Fancine programme: the popular K-Pop contest which will bring together enthusiasts of current Korean music at the Contenedor Cultural to enjoy the best hits’ striking choreographies. At the cinema, ‘The Beast’ and ‘Vincent debe morir’ will join the competition, accompanied by other screenings like ‘Deep Sea’ or ‘River’ in the morning or ‘Deviant’, with the participation of its director, Daniel M. Caniero.
The weekend will bring another of the most eagerly awaited events in the Fancine programme: the popular K-Pop contest which will bring together enthusiasts of current Korean music at the Contenedor Cultural to enjoy the best hits’ striking choreographies. At the cinema, ‘The Beast’ and ‘Vincent debe morir’ will join the competition, accompanied by other screenings like ‘Deep Sea’ or ‘River’ in the morning or ‘Deviant’, with the participation of its director, Daniel M. Caniero.