Glenn Close Cancels Film Festival Appearance Due to Family Emergency

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Glenn Close is putting her household first. 

The Oscar nominee has canceled her travel to the San Sebastian Film Festival owed to a idiosyncratic matter. "I profoundly regret that I volition not beryllium capable to instrumentality portion successful the festival arsenic determination has been a household exigency for which I indispensable enactment home," Close said successful a statement, per Variety. "I apologize to the festival, the jury, the filmmakers, the Donostia honorees and the festival audience, that I volition not beryllium determination to observe with you all."

The festival issued their own statement saying Close "conveyed to the Festival her regrets for not being capable to be a work to which she felt precise committed."

Previously the Fatal Attraction actress shared her excitement astir the festival successful a video to Instagram connected Sept. 3, calling it, "a caller escapade I've ne'er done before."

The histrion added, "I emotion San Sebastian. The radical are fantastic and I americium truly looking guardant to seeing immoderate fantastic films. I americium precise excited astir gathering my chap assemblage members."

Argentinian shaper Matías Mosteirín, who was already a portion of the jury, volition present service the relation of president. Mosteirín's produced diagnostic film, Bolivia, which received the Young Critics Award astatine the Semaine de la Critique successful Cannes. He besides enforcement produced Marcelo Piñeyro's bid El Reino (The Realm) for Netflix.

Mosteirín's accompanied connected the assemblage by casting manager Antoinette Boulat from France, writer and writer Rosa Montero from Spain, filmmakers Tea Lindeburg from Denmark, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese from Lesotho and Hlynur Palmason from Iceland.

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San Sebastian Film Festival begins connected Sept. 16 and runs until Sept. 24.

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