He is Marvel's Supreme Sorcerer, the best Sherlock Holmes of recent decades and also the most anticipated star of this edition of the Sitges Film Festival. Benedict Cumberbatch (London, 1976), twice nominated for an Oscar – for The imitation game and The power of the dog–, visited the festival this Monday to present That thing with wings, a psychological drama by Dylan Southern starring a comic book artist overwhelmed by the death of his wife, unable to cope with his job, raising two children and, above all, his mental health alone. Twisted by his own grief, the artist begins to express his grief in the form of the anthropomorphic crow that stars in the graphic novel he's working on; a fantastical presence (and ambivalent in its intentions) that pushes the film towards the territory of the gothic horror tale.

In the first sequence of The Roses (The Roses) we see the main character couple in therapy listing what they appreciate about their respective spouse. The aggravation of their respective lists ("it's better than living with a wolf", "he has arms" ...) scares the marriage counselor to the point that she diagnoses that as a couple they are hopeless. In the new adaptation of Warren Adler's novel, which Danny DeVito already brought to the screen in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, the protagonists are English people living in the United States, and they find the wit of their respective insults hilarious, which, in turn, has scared the American therapist.