Almost three decades after winning his first Palme d'Or and the Oscar for best foreign language film for "Pelle, the conqueror" ("Pelle erobreren"), Bille August will be present for the first time in the official section of the Festival of San Sebastián with «Silent heart"(" Stille Hjerte ").
Bill August is one of the seven winners of two Golden Palms, along with the Swedish Alf Sjöberg, the American Francis Ford Coppola, the Japanese Shohei Imamura, the Serbian Emir Kusturica, the Belgians Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne and the German Michael Haneke, and that in 1992 he won this award again for «Best intentions"(" Den goda viljan ").
The director has also been up to two times at the Berlinale fighting to win the Golden Bear, although without any success. «Smilla, mystery in the snow"(" Smilla's Sense of Snow ") and"Goodbye Bafana"(" Goodbye Bafana ") were in the official section of the Berlin Film Festival but did not win any awards.
Now it comes to San Sebastian Festival to try to get the prestigious Golden Shell for "Silent Heart," a film that tells the story of three generations of a family who meet one weekend when their terminally ill mother wants to end her life. What everyone accepted a priori, during those two days becomes something very difficult to assimilate.