“The Man Who Loved Flying Saucers” by Diego Lerman will compete in the Basque festival. It is a story based on the legendary journalist from Nuevediario, played by Leonardo Sbaraglia.
“The man who loved flying saucers”of Diego Lermanwith Leo Sbaraglia entirely gray-haired, embodying Joseph of Zerhas been chosen by the San Sebastian Film Festival to be part of the Official Competition along with the new films of Costa-Gavras. Mike Leigh, Francois Ozon, Maite Alberdi, Iciar Bollain, Edward Berger and other directors.
Most of these works are advertised as dramas, so the one Lerman promises a few hours of respite, some nostalgia for other times of greater innocence, and perhaps a critique of the mischief of that journalism that, when it cannot find it, invents the news. But to what extent does the author himself Joseph of Zer Weren’t you really hoping to actually encounter flying saucers at the top of Uritorco?
Perhaps the new generations do not register it, and the old ones have already half forgotten it. Born José Bernardo Kelzer back in 1941, Joseph of Zer He was a journalist of “People”, “Seven Days”, Channel 9 and other media, smoked like a bat, drank gallons of coffee and had a singular capacity for inventiveness.
He caught the news viewers “New Diary” with reports of strange events, in particular the alleged presence of alien ships flying unannounced through the Argentine skies. It is said that the newscast reached rating peaks when it appeared of Zer with its reports that are difficult to verify, but also vainly refutable.
“The man who loved flying saucers” reworks an anecdote that circulated in the journalistic environment in the 1980s: José de Zer had gone with his team to a small town in Cordoba where nothing was happening, but he, starting from a burnt pasture, invented the news. The curious people who came later were so many that, in the town and in the surroundings of the Uritorco hill, they still thank him.
Next to Leo Sbaraglia act Sergio Prina, Osmar Nunez, Guillermo Pfening, Maria Merlino, Monica Ayos, Norman Briski, Eva Bianco, Daniel Araoz and Renata Lermanthe director’s daughter, who is competing for the third time in the San Sebastian Official. The previous ones were “A kind of family”Best Screenplay award, and “Alternate”Best Supporting Actress award precisely for Renata.
The other films in competition also have good casts. They include, for example, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Mathieu Amalric, Angela Molina, Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Tilda Swinton, Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Source: Ambito
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