The 72nd San Sebastian Movie Pageant is underway after the world premiere of Audrey Diwan‘s racy flick Emmanuelle kicked off the festivities in Spain.
The movie, which boasts stars corresponding to Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Girl on Fireplace), Naomi Watts (Mullholland Drive, Birdman), Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Issues), is impressed by Emmanuelle Arsan’s erotic novel. Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong spherical out the remainder of the solid, all of whom bar Watts appeared briefly on stage earlier than the displaying on the metropolis’s Kursaal Theater.
The director’s mission facilities round a lady, Emmanuelle (Merlant), on a enterprise journey to Hong Kong working with a luxurious resort group. Looking for a misplaced pleasure, she seeks her arousal in experiences with some of the resort’s visitors. One of them, Kei (Sharpe), appears to consistently elude her. Diwan has stated the script was conceived as an exploration of eroticism within the post-#MeToo period.
The French filmmaker, who co-wrote Emmanuelle with Rebecca Zlotowski, gained Venice’s prestigious Golden Lion in 2021 for her movie Taking place. It marks one of San Sebastian Movie Pageant‘s glitziest-ever lineups, with honors for Cate Blanchett, Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodóvar on the week’s agenda right here on the Spanish coast.
Almodóvar’s first English language function, The Room Subsequent Door, premiered to a whopping 17-minute standing ovation on the Venice Movie Pageant earlier this month. The Spaniard dutifully thanked the group because the movie’s stars, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, stood with him.
San Sebastian has additionally picked up some heavy hitters forward of awards season with Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield’s We Reside In Time closing the fest, in addition to screenings of Edward Berger’s Conclave, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Sean Baker’s Anora.
Neon has been introduced to be circling U.S. distribution rights. Emmanuelle will get its theatrical launch in France on Sept. 25 by Pathé.