The weather is improving. Finally some news is happening, and the standard of the competition films in on the rise. The Chinese government's refusal to allow director of The Emperor's Shadow, Zhou Xiaowen, to give a press conference, made the front page of El Pais. The Chinese authorities, reports El Diario Vasco, sought to prevent Emperor being shown at San Sebastián. 'If he had spoken to the press,' El Diario says, 'then we would not be using awkward words like 'censorship'.'
A clear favourite for the Golden Shell has emerged, in the form of Argentinian Eduardo Mignogna's Sol de Otoño. Though none of the papers use the word 'masterpiece' it's a little too traditional for that the sight of hardened hacks sniffling into their hankies on Monday night can only be good news. Sol has been praised particularly for its central performances by Norma Aleandro (a good best actress bet) and Federico Luppi.
Imanol Uribe's anti-racist Bwana which takes the phrase 'black comedy' quite literally has been well received, too: 'solid, tragicomic and necessary,' says El Mundo, which hazards a guess that Terry George's ''politico-sentimental' Some Mother's Son will win Zabaltegi. And a star has arrived, in the form of Chazz Palminteri 'the perfect gangster', according to Egin. Hopefully, post-Palminteri and Pacino, this will be the last San Sebastián in which Diego Galán has to apologise for the lack of stars and El Diario Vasco has to run a feature on the Jack Nicholsons and Cameron Diazs who didn't turn up. El Diario carries a piece on the ten 'young, expert' chauffeurs to the stars, but neglects to mention that on Tuesday night, one of them containing your MPI correspondent drove into a wall. Jonathan Holland
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