The Sea Inside has swept 14 awards at the top Spanish film awards ceremony, the Goya awards, the BBC are reporting:
The Goya Awards won by The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) included best film, best director for Alejandro Amenabar and best actor for Bardem…
…other Goya Awards included best actress for Lola Duenas, best supporting actress, supporting actor, newcomer actor and actress, script, photography, make-up and music…
It is favourite to win the Oscar for best foreign language film in February…
…It has already won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film.
Fourteen awards? Either Spanish cinema was particularly bad this year or this movie is stunning, I can’t comment as I haven’t seen it yet, but what does everyone else think?
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I’ve seen 8mm, and I’m awaiting arrival of Hardcore. I’d still say Tesis is better than 8mm for all the usual Hollywood reasons.
Oh 8mm is really good, but with Tesis the danger is a lot more personable for me, and you really are pulled right into the seedy world.
Look forward for Hardcore though.
Not in Spanish cinema, I am afraid.
Abre los Ojos has a lot of parallelisms with The Game, by David Fincher. The Machinist, with Christian Bale, is similar, too (and filmed here).
Tesis deals with delicate material. Paul Scrader´s Hardcore and Joel Schumacher´s 8 mm deal with the same material. I particularly recommend Scrader of course. George C. Scott is perfect in that film.
Aha, well since I have two Spanish cinema experts here, tell me this.
I loved Obre los ojos and Tesis, excuse the spelling! Any suggestions for similar themed movies from Spain?
Another from Spain here. I haven’t seen the movie myself but everybody here keeps saying that there is a crisis in Spanish cinema and this year the only important film was Mar Adentro. I don’t know if I agree or not, but I think there were Spanish movies that could compete with US movies, since this year, in my opinion, there weren’t too many incredibly good US movies around either, and there have been Spanish romantic comedies, dark comedies, dramas that looked good. However, since I saw his first movie, I think Amenabar is really really good so probably he deserves all those Goya.
I am Spanish, I can well talk from a position of proximity. There is a crisis of audience in the spanish cinema, which many attribute to competence with american movies. I prefer to think that cinema here is poor, generally speaking.
In the last year, our movies have lost 3 million spectators vs american movies. Maybe that could explain the result of the Goyas ceremony. Which, otherwise, is a shame, because there are more good movies here than The Sea Inside.