Prestigious fare such as Justin Kurzel’s Nitram rubbed shoulders with Taiwanese zombie movies and a werewolf retrospective at Spain’s fantasy and horror show
“I don’t know about you, but I’ve been cooped up for two years and it’s so fucking sweet to be here right now,” said Ana Lily Amirpour, on stage with a small dog called Benny, to introduce her film Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon at the Sitges international fantastic film festival.
It was very sweet indeed. Twenty-six miles south of Barcelona, the 54th edition of the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, to give it its full title, was the latest festival to cautiously open up after a reduced edition in 2020, but Spain still takes its Covid precautions seriously, and audiences were required to wear masks. Sitges is friendlier and more inclusive than Cannes (shout-out to Ainhoa, who helped out when I cocked up my ticket reservations, and to the patrón of El Santo, who let me hang out in his cafe after I got locked out of my Airbnb), and it’s a peculiar but agreeable sensation to be surrounded by Halloween window displays when it’s warm and sunny enough to allow for bathing on one of the town’s 17 gloriously uncrowded beaches.
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