Word: amenabar
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...briefly fulfill their dreams in him. Visually, too, the movie is in love with Barcelona, its gnarled Gaudi buildings, and with the countryside of Ovieto, a hundred shades of glorious earth tones. (The cinematographer is Javier Aguirresarobe, who has shot films directed by Pedro Almodovar, Victor Erice and Alejandro Amenabar.) It is in Ovieto that Vicky meets Juan Antonio's ancient father, who writes beautiful poetry but refuses to publish it, believing that a world that has not learned how to love does not deserve...
...film begins dreamily with a female voice entreating us to enter its world as we are calmed with images of an serene beach; everything will be alright, it says. In this way, Amenabar establishes a spiritually-infused dreamscape distinct from the corporeal world, a conceit that pervades the film...
...Amenabar, only thirty-two, exhibits great directorial instincts. His constantly moving camera navigates the film’s space capturing shot after shot with finely-crafted composition. He takes risks in terms of narrative forms, mingling elements of magical realism and surrealism, previously explored to different ends in his last film The Others...
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