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FESTIVALS Spain

San Sebastian goes casual

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The best occupational psychologists will tell you that allowing employees to wear casual clothes one day a week increases productivity. If, moreover, you decide to take them on an outing and lock them up in a hotel for an intense day of group activities, results are guaranteed.

Casual Day is definitely one of the surprises of the Zabaltegui section of the 55th San Sebastián Film Festival. Max Lemcke, the Spanish director with the exotic name, also shows he knows how to work well with actors, helped by a talented group that includes Juan Diego, winner of the 2006 Best Actor Concha di Plata, and 2005 Best Actor Goya winner Luis Tosar.

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Casual Day is an ensemble film, however, whose stories intersect and unfold between the characters’ present and their tormented pasts. The moral? There is none. According to Lemcke, life does not have one, it is just a legacy of the past, and respect a nuisance that keeps human beings from developing their personal talents. Yet Casual Day is not a cynical film but a brutally hyper-realist one.

Produced by Iker Monfort, Casual Day was made in collaboration with Tele 5 and the Basque ETB and has as much potential at the box office as on the festival circuit. It will be released in Spain next month and hopefully in the rest of Europe shortly thereafter.

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(Translated from Italian)

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