Meg Ryan will be the great guest star of the BCN Film Fest, which will celebrate its eighth edition from April 18 to 26. The popular American actress, queen of the romantic comedy of the late eighties and nineties with classics such as When Harry Met Sally, Something to Remember or You’ve Got Email, the latter two co-starring with Tom Hanks, will attend the contest to present her second feature film as a director, What Happens Later, which marks her return to the genre accompanied by David Duchovny. Ryan had been away from cinema for eight years since she released Ithaca in 2016, her debut as a filmmaker, which did not attract much attention. The 62-year-old interpreter assured that she took a break to focus on other aspects of her life, such as her role as her mother. “It has not been easy to bring her to the festival. It has been a long road of negotiations and patience and we are sure that Ryan will give a lot of play. I think it has to be like in his films,” said the director of the BCN Film Fest, Conxita Casanovas. , during the press conference to present a preview of the programming, which will consist of about seventy titles.
If last year, the Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival dedicated its retrospective to Wim Wenders, this 2024 it will pay tribute to Yasujiro Ozu, one of the German director’s favorite filmmakers, with a selection of twelve essential films when they turn 120 years of the birth of the legendary Japanese director. Among them you can see everything from the memorable Tales of Tokyo or History of a Neighborhood to some lesser-known films such as I Was Born, But… or A Hostel in Tokyo.
