MUMBAI: Julia Roberts received the Donostia Award for lifetime achievement from the hands of Eat Pray Love co-star Javier Bardem at the 58th San Sebastian International Film Festival last Monday.

Exclaimed Roberts, "What a fortunate woman I‘ve been in my life for a variety of reasons. If we were having dinner, I‘d tell you all of them. But now, I‘ll just say thank you from the bottom of my heart." On his part Bardem called Roberts "fearless," "fun" and "friend." 

The duo is in town along with director Ryan Murphy and Richard Jenkins for the release of Eat in Spain. The film was screened to packed theatres at the festival.

While Eat was dismissed by critics as light fare, other films in the festival‘s lineup were getting positive reactions.

Diego Luna‘s directorial debut film Abel screened in the Latin Horizons sidebar and Josh Radnor‘s both played well to audiences with Peter Mullan‘s Scottish gang drama Neds and and Oscar Aibar‘s El Gran Vazquez making a splash in the main competition over the weekend.