72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2024
72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Sobriety, emotion and Denzel
Friday, September 19th, 2014
The opening gala for the 62nd San Sebastián Film Festival will be starting at 9 o’clock tonight at the Kursaal. During the ceremony Denzel Washington will be receiving the Donostia award from the director Antoine Fucqua, and both of them will be presenting the opening film The Equalizer.
Denzel Washington won an Oscar for best actor for Training Day (2001), the first film he made with Fucqua, and they have now worked together again on a spectacular film, The Equalizer that has been adapted from a TV series from the late 1980s.
Washington plays a mysterious, laconic former secret service agent, presumably the CIA although this is never mentioned, who has spent several years in retirement from the world
of espionage. However when he sees how a young women played by Chloë Grace Moretz falls victim to a Russian Mafia gang who have forced her to work as a prostitute, he decides to get involved.
The director of the gala for the second year running, Patxi Barco, explains that this year’s opening gala will focus more on areas rather than sections and willbe hosted by Karra Elejalde and Edurne Ormazabal with interventions by several Spanish actors. Barco stresses that the films, the city and the programme will be playing the leading roles in a gala that aims to combine sobriety with moments of emotion.
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