Jacqueline Bisset (Weybridge, England, 81 years old) is in Spain after so long that she barely remembers. He came to Zaragoza this weekend to collect an award for his career at the Saraqusta festival, specialized in historical cinema. “If I can pronounce it right twice,” he confesses, “I thought I would find my way there.” And he has done it. And this despite the fact that his trip, from Los Angeles via London where his suitcase was lost, has been quite an odyssey. “There are no longer people to talk to, only machines that don’t solve anything for you,” he laments, despite the fact that the story of the loss had a happy ending, “thanks to a very kind man in Spain.” “It was a stressful moment,” he admits. Bisset travels alone and without any assistant. “She is active, completely autonomous and professional, she listens and pays attention, she doesn’t stop working, she makes everything easy and she doesn’t look as old as she is,” the director of the Saraqusta festival, José Angel Delgado, acknowledges with admiration.
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