This year, the San Sebastian Festival has rushed to present its Donostia awards. While Werner Herzog received his during Friday's opening, this Saturday was the tribute to Naomi Watts (Shoreham, United Kingdom, 1968), an actress of proven talent and a hard worker by nature whom David Lynch discovered in 2001 in Mulholland Drive. A double and fascinating character, that of that endless masterpiece, which she still remembers with pride and gratitude: “I had been looking for a role like that for a good ten years. Before, I experienced a lot of rejection, many ‘you’re not enough...’ or ‘you’re too...’, to the point that I would go to auditions with a very negative energy. But David Lynch saw something in me and gave me the role of my life. Many people don't get to play two such different characters over the course of their career, and I was able to do them in the same film. I owe an eternal debt to David Lynch”.

It's almost predictable that a film about a child piano prodigy begins with the protagonist playing like a virtuoso, but it's not that the piano he's playing is the one in a funeral home where the child is trying to process the fact that his mother has just died. Wolfgang, which premieres this Friday, is the big commercial bet of Catalan cinema in 2025, a friendly family comedy with an openly popular vocation that, however, addresses issues often taboo in this type of cinema, such as grief, mental health, and suicide. All these themes were already in the eponymous book by Laia Aguilar, which adapts the film and which "excited" the director Javier Ruiz Caldera when he read to her: "I have two daughters and I go to the movies a lot with them, and I miss movies that both they and I can enjoy, movies about characters that deal with emotions and somewhat complex themes and that then, when we leave the theater, give rise to a conversation."

It's almost predictable that a film about a child piano prodigy begins with the protagonist playing like a virtuoso, but it's not that the piano he's playing is the one in a funeral home where the child is trying to process the fact that his mother has just died. Wolfgang, which premieres this Friday, is the big commercial bet of Catalan cinema in 2025, a friendly family comedy with an openly popular vocation that, however, addresses issues often taboo in this type of cinema, such as grief, mental health, and suicide. All these themes were already in the eponymous book by Laia Aguilar, which adapts the film and which "excited" the director Javier Ruiz Caldera when he read to her: "I have two daughters and I go to the movies a lot with them, and I miss movies that both they and I can enjoy, movies about characters that deal with emotions and somewhat complex themes and that then, when we leave the theater, give rise to a conversation."