San Sebastian Units Samuel Beckett Biopic ‘Dance First’ As Closing Movie – Deadline

UK director James Marsh’s literary biopic Dance First, starring Gabriel Byrne as iconic Irish author Samuel Beckett, will shut the 71st San Sebastian Movie Competition.

The movie is bought by London and Paris-based Movie Constellation.

As per its synopsis, the biopic touches on numerous phases in Beckett’s life from “Parisian bon vivant, to World Conflict II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse.”

Its focus, nevertheless, is on Beckett’s response to profitable the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, which was a turning level in his life as he grappled together with his personal inside demons.

Byrne is joined within the solid by French actress Sandrine Bonnaire as Beckett’s spouse.

Marsh has an extended relationship with San Sebastian.

His Academy Award-winning documentary for Man on Wire (2009), directed with Simon Chinn, performed on the pageant in 2008.

Previous to that his early work Wisconsin Demise Journey screened within the Perlak part in 1999 and received a FIPRESCI Prize Particular Point out.

Subsequent credit included The King (2005), Shadow Dancer (2012) and The Concept of The whole lot (2104).

Byrne beforehand attended San Sebastian with Joel Coen’s 1990 Silver Shell winner Miller’s Crossing and Costa Gavras’ Capital in 2012.

The San Sebastian Movie Competition runs from September 23 to 30.