When Marlene Emilie Lyngstad hosted San Sebastian Film Festival director José Luis Rebordinos for a screening of her debut feature, Cute, she was admittedly extremely nervous. “It is a film that divides the audience,” the Norwegian filmmaker tells The Hollywood Reporter at the town’s Hotel Maria Cristina on Sunday. “I was very nervous to hear [whether] people saw the intentions of the film or if they saw it as a provocation… We know that people haven’t walked out. [But] maybe when they [read] what the film is about, they don’t want to see it.” Thankfully, Rebordinos saw exactly what Lyngstad had set out to do in this bold, unsettling…
