Valladolid: ‘The Permanent Picture,’ ‘The Old Oak’ Win Big as the Spanish Festival’s Reboot Wins Applause
29.10.2023 - 17:07
/ variety.com
Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” – won big Saturday night at Spain’s Valladolid Festival, walking off with its main competition Golden Spike and the Spanish event’s best actor (Dave Turner) and Audience Award plaudits respectively. The prize ceremony also saw Charlotte Rampling, star of closing film “Juniper” from Matthew J.
Saville, accept an enthusiastically applauded Honorific Spike for her career achievement. Though decided upon by independent juries, Valladolid’s prizes say much about the new-fit festival after a first-year reboot by new director José Luis Cienfuegos, previously a Gijón and Seville fest head.
Under directors Fernando Lara (1984-2004), Juan Carlos Frugone (2005-08) and Javier Angulo (2009-2022), Valladolid has consolidated as one of Spain’s biggest festivals, after San Sebastián. and a bastion of auteurist, arthouse independent cinema.
Few figures in Europe embody this more than Ken Loach who explained when in Valladolid with screenwriter Paul Laverty that “The Old Oak” “explored the seeds of racism.” At the same time, Cienfuegos told Variety, “Valladolid is a city absolutely dedicated to the festival that demands and needs to open the doors to a new generation of filmmakers.” A Cannes Critics’ Week winner for her short, “The Disinherited,” Ferrés forms part of Barcelona’s vibrant – and often women-led – new generation filmmaking scene, with “The Permanent Picture,” her first feature, weighing in as a blend of distinctive storytelling, dry humor, captivating cinematography and resonant narrative, Variety has reported. It also traces a journey through the lives of migrants who moved from Andalusia to Catalonia, while striking a novel balance between naturalism and artifice.
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