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(EFE).- With just over 24 hours left until the San Sebastián Festival concludes, this 72nd edition will be remembered for the visit of the authentic Jack Sparrow to the children of a hospital and for the glowing praise of the Donostia Pedro Almodovar award to the president of the Spanish GovernmentPedro Sánchez, whom he called ‘Mister Handsome’.

Johnny Depp, star if there ever was one, arrived late to all his calls, yes, with an incredible good humor washed down with txacolí, a typical wine from the region of the Basque Country, to which San Sebastián belongs, and tons of gratitude to a Festival who supported him in his lowest hours, granting him a Donostia award in 2021.

“I will always feel a very special connection with Donostia (San Sebastián in the Basque language),” said the pirate captain, who was stopped by international journalists, fed up with delays in being able to chat with him, even when Depp presented his second film as a director, a ‘biopic’ about the painter Amadeo Modigliani. , ‘Modi’, which was not received with much enthusiasm.

But he was able to put on his Jack Sparrow suit and appear at the children’s oncology wards of the Donostia public hospital to take photos and tell stories to the children. A love.

Love (or something like that) was the statement that, in the middle of a press conference, Pedro Almodóvar made to his namesake Sánchez: “There are so many things to ask of a man of those characteristics, on a political and physical level… I’m going to have to decide if I become half a firecracker or a filmmaker who receives an award,” said the director about the President of the Government’s detail of attending the presentation of his award.

Of course, with everyone counting the flight hours that separated him from New York, where the president participated in the United Nations General Assembly and from where he traveled to San Sebastián, to see if he had time to arrive. It was the first time that a president of the Spanish Government from the democratic period (since 1977) attended the contest. A detail.

For his part, Javier Giner – former press officer for Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz before becoming a filmmaker and successful literary author – helped the American actor Andrew Garfield, who was not allowed to enter the legendary María Cristina hotel, where the crême gathers. of the crême of the festival.

“He arrived with a cap and glasses and the security wouldn’t let him pass. So I approached him and said, ‘Please let him in, it’s Andrew Garfield. I answer for him.’ Tweet from Giner, who these days was presenting his series ‘Yo, addict’, with Aitor Gabilondo as showrunner and Oriol Pla as the absolute protagonist, playing Giner himself in one of the most emotional works seen this year.

Oriol Pla armed himself with a trumpet to play Happy Birthday to Pedro Almodóvar, who turned 75 these days, although the director surely preferred the version (more tuned and in Basque) that, spontaneously, the fans who were waiting for him sang to him. arrival at the hotel. It was very emotional.

And delicious is the dance between the seats by Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Úrsula Corberó to the sound of ‘A kiss and a flower’, by Nino Bravo, after the screening – and several minutes of applause – of the surrealist ‘El jockey’, by the Argentine Luis Ortega , who came with a large delegation of fifteen people to defend the passage of the film through the Horizontes Latinos section, where it is one of the favorites (along with ‘The aroma of freshly cut grass’), of the also Argentine Celina Murga.

And they also enjoyed the elegance of Tilda Swinton, Monica Bellucci’s boyfriend -Tim Burton, who also appeared by surprise-, George Clooney on video congratulating the Donostia winner Cate Blanchet (to whom he told that she was no longer visible). because she wasn’t wearing pants), or a sober Pamela Anderson, dressed in black and baggy clothes, abandoning her sex symbol image and honoring her film “The Last Showgirl’, by Gia Coppola.

EFE

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