The word “fantastic” was finally restored to the Festival’s official name. The edition opened with the highly anticipated sequel to [REC]. The closing film was John Hillcoat’s post-apocalyptic drama The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy and starring Viggo Mortensen, who attended the Festival. Many were honored: Malcolm McDowell, Walter Hill, Park Chan-wook, Herschell Gordon Lewis, José Ramón Larraz, Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Ivan Reitman, Clive Barker, Elías Querejeta, Samuel Hadida, Jordi Llompart, and Jack Taylor. Among the guests were some familiar faces, like a controversy-prone Gaspar Noé with Enter the Void, and then lesser-known names Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg. There was also much buzz around Nicolas Winding Refn’s double feature: Bronson and Valhalla Rising.
