Advantages: Javier Bardem, great score Disadvantages: A trifle ordinary
Alejandro Amenabar's THE SEA INSIDE (MAR ADENTRO) was released in 2004, five years after his cult Spanish favourite OPEN YOUR EYES (ABRE LOS OJOS), the psychological thriller, unfortunately inspired Cameron Crowe to make his dreadful remake VANILLA SKY with Tom Cruise. After a quick foray to America for his first English speaking film, THE OTHERS, a horror starring Nicole Kidman, he then returned home to Spain to tinker with another genre, this time ... ...thirty years, completely paralysed from the waist down. As defunct as his body is, his mind is arrow sharp with thoughts of ending his life as he spends his long drawn-out days in bed awaiting a court's decision, after decades of legal toing-and-froing, to finally give him the right to die in a country where suicide is not only illegal but, ironically, Spanish judicial procedures are expected to take a lifetime anyway. He is cared for by his devoted ...
Charles_Strickland 08.04.2007 (19.10.2007)
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Winner of the 2004 Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Javier Bardem gives a ... more
remarkable unforgettable performance in Alejandro Amenabar's gripping drama about dying with dignity 'The Sea Inside'. Thirty-five-year-old Bardem plays 55-year-...
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Inside is about Spaniard Ramon Sampedro (played by Oscar nominee Javier Bardem), who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. The sto...
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