Begoña Gómez, an Almodóvar girl in San Sebastián: “Congratulations, dear Pedro”

Big day for Pedro Almodóvar, who this Thursday received the Donostia Award at the San Sebastián festival in recognition of his career. In addition, his latest film premieres at this festival, The next roomthe first in English of his work and with which the filmmaker from La Mancha made history again on September 7 by winning the Golden Lion in Venice, being the first Spanish director to achieve it.

Pedro Sánchez and his wife, Begoña Gómez, attended the San Sebastian gala. “44 years ago you presented Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls of the bunch at the San Sebastian Festival. It was the first stop on a trip that forever changed the history of cinema. Today that same festival recognizes your international artistic career, only within the reach of a teacher. Congratulations on the Donostia Award, dear Pedro“, wrote the leader of the Executive in X after posing at the photocall with the director of All about my mother y Return.

Sánchez has opted for the classic, the winner for a light blue suit and Gómez for a midi dress from the Teresa Helbig brand, one of her favorite brands.

Sánchez and his wife’s trip to San Sebastián comes after learning some news related to the judicial investigation that weighs on her. This week we learned that the Provincial Court of Madrid has rejected an appeal presented by the Prosecutor’s Office and has authorized Judge Juan Carlos Peinado to investigate whether Gómez appropriated the software of the Complutense University, where he co-directed a chair, illegally.

Donostia Award

Almodóvar took the stage to a great applause. The actress Tilda Swinton, star of her new film, presented her with the award. The director had a few words of gratitude for his El Deseo team and has named and valued legendary actresses and actors of our cinema such as Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, Carmen Machi, Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem and Juan Diego, among others. “I have been fortunate to work with extremely talented actors and actresses and I am immensely grateful to them”he pointed out.

From the stage, Amodóvar has also claimed: “Let us do everything possible to ensure that the great tragedies, daily pain, misunderstanding, lies, lack of empathy, social injustice, hatred… Everything negative imaginable, let us make belongs to fiction and that real life passes in a fair way, in peace and very entertained by the fictions that will only exist on our screens I know that I am asking too much but I have always been like that, since I arrived in Madrid in 1970 intending to dedicate myself. to direct films.”

Mr. Handsome

Hours before, in his previous appearance, Pedro Almodóvar thanked the President of the Government for his trip to San Sebastián to support culture. He has even called the socialist leader Mr. Handsome.

“Sánchez is a man who, in addition to being our president, is called Mr. Handsome in Europe and the United States. I’m sure you understand, Mr. Handsome.. So, of course, there are many things to ask and say to a man with those characteristics on a political level and on a physical level as well. So, I have to decide, if I become half firecracker or half filmmaker who recognizes an award“, the director joked.