Mid-fest, press coverage is reduced, with El Pais down to a single page, and reviews and interviews dominating. One of the Spanish hopes for the official section Pilar Miró's Tu nombre envenena mis sueños has not been a critical hit. La Vanguardia reports the guffaws heard during the premiere as Carmelo Gómez tells Emma Suárez, 'I feel empty' after making love to her three times. Like El Pais, it criticises 'an excess of literature' in the film. Suárez and Gómez, though, receive praise a similar story to Taxi. Will this be remembered as the San Sebastián in which young actors triumphed over venerable directors?
With wet and wind dominating, it's hard to find thrilling images: 'sad and starless' was how El Diario Vasco described Sunday, wondering why a festival with a pta550 million budget cannot get a handful of 'emmathompsons and melgibsons' together. 'If we don't get either a great movie or a big star soon,' it says, 'there will be discontent'. It carries a section on the Maria Cristina fans: 'They wait. They scream. They jump.' Egin includes images of a woman cleaning the MarÌa Cristina's steps, and a San Seb journalist writes of how tough it is being a San Seb journalist: 'it's very hard to know what clothes to choose,' he informs the expectant reader. The lack of glam arrivals this year is pointed up by El Mundo, with its pic of 60s Spanish star and national joke-butt Carmen Sevilla. And socially? 'The Trainspotting party at Ku,' reports El Diario Vasco, 'was not in the least bit wild.' The good news, though, is that the cinemas are full: the public seems to have decided that they're the best place to get out of the rain. Jonathan Holland
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