Amenábar, the Spanish Mastermind

Today I want to talk about one of my favorite film-directors, Alejandro Amenábar, probably the best Spanish film director alive with Almodóvar. He is also a screen-play writer and a composer. He had won one Oscar’s awards for “Mar Adentro”, a real life story about the tetraplegic Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), also he had won nine Goya’s awards . He made Thesis, his first important film when he was 23 years old, a psychological thriller. “Abre los ojos” was his second movie and was a huge success in Spain, in my opinion “Abre los ojos” is his masterpiece, with an exceptional Eduardo Noriega and Penelope Cruz. This film had a Hollywood remake called Vanilla sky, not as good as the original one. In 2001 he released his best known film The Others, starring Nicole Kidman. Although his lasts films were not what the audience expected. He usually does in his films twisted finals where spectators are surprised for this unsuspected turn of the plot. He is a young director with incredible and breathtaking movies.