SOME FAMOUS SPANISH FILMS

Nowadays, most of the films are made in the EEUU or in the UK. But in Spain also films are made but they don’t become as popular as the films in the other countries mentioned.

Here some of those films:

“Lo imposible” (The impossible):

• This film was directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, a spanish director, but the actors in this film are from EEUU, like Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. This film was one of the most successful in 2012 because it hadn’t the premiere only in Spain, also in many other countries. This film is about a family that was spending their Christmas holidays in Thailand when one day, when they were in the pool, there was an earthquake causing two tsunamis. This film is based on a true story.

“El orfanato” (Orphanage):

• This film was directed by the same director as The Impossible. In this case, the main character, Laura, is an spanish actress called Belén Rueda. Laura settled with her family in the orphanage where she grew up as a child. Her purpose is to open a home for disabled children. The atmosphere of the old house wakes up the imagination of his son, who starts being left dragging for the fantasy. The games of the child worry increasingly Laura, who starts suspecting that in the house there is something that threatens her family.

“Ágora” (Agora):

• This is a film directed by Alejandro Amenábar, a spanish director. The main character, Hypatia, was played by Rachel Weisz. This film is based on the VI century. Hypatia, philosopher and atheistic, fights to save the wisdom of the ancient world, without perceiving that her young slave Davo is debated between the love that she practises privately and the freedom that might reach joining the unstoppable ascent of the Christianity.

“Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones” (Tad, the lost explorer):

• This film is for kids. It’s a spanish movie directed by Enrique Gato. This film is about a boy who wants to be an archaeologist. People think he’s a famous archaeologist so he have to save a mythical lost city from an evil treasure hunting company.

“Volver a empezar” (Start over again):

• This film was directed by José Luis Garci in 1982. Antonio Miguel Albajara (Antonio Ferrandis) arrives to Gijón, his hometown, from Stockholm, where he had just received the Nobel prize of literature. For forty years he has been teacher of Medieval Literature in Berkeley’s prestigious University (California), where he has alternated his educational labor with the literary production that has given him world reputation.

• This film won an Oscar to better movie of not english speech.

“Belle Époque”:• This film was directed by Fernando Trueba in 1992

although it is set before the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Fernando decides to wake up and he shelters in a country house, where he is received by Manolo, an eccentric painter who lives withdrawn due to his political ideas. The boy maintains relations with the four daughters of his protector (Rocio, Violeta, Clara and Luz) without knowing very well which of them he is in love with.

• This film won an Oscar to better movie of not english speech.

“Todo sobre mi madre” (Everything about my mother):

•This film was directed by Pedro Almodóvar in 1999. It is set in Madrid. Manuela, a single mother, sees die his son the day of his birthday. Shattered, she travels to Barcelona to look for the father of the boy.

• This film won an Oscar to better movie of not english speech.

“Mar adentro” (Out to sea):• “This film was directed by Alejandro Amenábar in 2004.

Ramón (Javier Bardem) leads almost thirty years humbled in a bed to the care of his family. His only window to the world is that of his room, which gives to the sea, where he had the accident that interrupted his youth. Since then, his only dream is die worthily. In his life, two women exercise a great influence: Julia (Belén Rueda), a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa (Lola Dueñas), a neighbor who tries to convince him that living worth it. But also they, captivated by luminous personality of Ramón, will rethink the beginning govern his lifes. He knows that only who really loves him will help him to undertake his last journey