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Extraterrestrial Review
4 September 2012 3:30 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Michelle Jenner, Julián Villagrán, Carlos Areces and Raúl Cimas
Running Time: 94 minutes
Synopsis: Everyone knows what to do if one morning the sky would be absolutely full of UFOs: run as fast as you can. However, what would happen if the invasion started while you are in the flat of the girl of your dreams, the one you have just met?
Timecrimes (2007) was director Nacho Vigalondo’s first feature-length accidental time-travelling cult hit and second film Extraterrestrial is the follow-up. A comedy-drama with a study of the human condition, throw in a potential alien attack that’s literally loitering overhead and this is an impressive piece of work.
When Julio (Julian Villagran), an industrial design student, wakes up in a strange bed one morning he quickly discovers he’s not in his own flat. A drunken evening has obviously turned to this hung-over and unsure moment after a one-night stand. »
- Dan Bullock
Review: Extraterrestrial
12 July 2012 11:30 AM, PDT | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
If you're in a summer movie frame of mind and looking for an FX-laden sci-fi adventure, a title like Extraterrestrial (Extraterrestre), opening Friday for a week-long run in Austin, might seem like an obvious choice.
But it isn't. Despite the movie's title and summer release date, the extraterrestrial elements in this Spanish import from Fantastic Fest regular Nacho Vigalondo serve only as a backdrop for an intriguing, witty and rather minimalist comedy about the relationships between four characters. There is little action and barely a hint of digital effects; although Extraterrestrial is set during an alien invasion, it focuses on a far more interesting story about human nature.
The film opens as a young Spaniard, Julio (Julián Villagrán), awakens after a very successful night of drinking and womanizing. He finds himself in the apartment of Julia (Michelle Jenner), a woman no one would mind picking up in a bar. The »
- Don Clinchy
Extraterrestrial Review
26 June 2012 9:10 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Sex, Lies, and Alien Videotape?
I have to admit, after watching Nacho Vigalondo‘s sci-fi hit Timecrimes, a different tone was expected from Extraterrestrial. Something darker and more sinister. Something with an apocalyptic bite or evil alien conquerors. Yet, here I was watching a sci-fi script that played with hints of Seinfeld situational awkward comedy that completely agreed with director Jason Reitman,who compared Vigalondo to Woody Allen.
Could this tonal surprise be viewed as a bad thing? Possibly, depending on your expectations, but I’ll delve deeper into that issue a tad bit later. Instead, enjoy the delightfully light-hearted sci-fi/romance mash-up Vigalondo created and don’t dwell on what could have been. Be thankful for the art and you’ll be able to appreciate Nacho’s hybrid genre crossing film..
So how does this Woody Allen comparison come about? Much like Annie Hall, or most films from Allen’s arsenal for that matter, »
- Matt Donato
eOne Brings Girls Gone Dead and Extraterrestrial Home This July
19 June 2012 5:14 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Two more much talked about genre flicks are on their way home this July courtesy of the lovable loonies over at eOne, and we've got the scoop on each so you can plan ahead for your purchases. We're good like that.
From the Press Release
In the year of our pending apocalypse, Entertainment One and Focus World are excited to bring to home audiences Extraterrestrial, a sexy, darkly hilarious and apocalyptic new sci-fi comedy from Nacho Vigalondo, the acclaimed Spanish director of Timecrimes (now being remade into a major motion picture by Dreamworks).
When groggy and hung-over Julio (Julián Villagrán) wakes up in a strange apartment after a night of partying, he’s pleasantly surprised to discover it belongs to a beautiful one-night stand he can’t remember – Julia (Michelle Jenner). What’s already an awkward situation is made even more so when they discover giant flying saucers hovering above the now-deserted city. »
- Uncle Creepy
Review: ‘Extraterrestrial’ Finds Love and Laughs During a Possible Apocalypse (Spain)
14 June 2012 9:40 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The romantic comedy is a genre represented most frequently by stale, generic films that follow a paint-by-numbers formula devoid of personality and charm. To be sure, even the best examples follow a well established structure, but they also manage to make their characters endearing and likeable in situations both entertaining and recognizable. That recognition factor is important, so it’s rare to find a rom-com willing to take chances with its setup and subvert expectations along the way. Julio (Julián Villagrán) awakens in an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar apartment with a vaguely familiar woman. He sees Julia (Michelle Jenner) walking about clad only in a t-shirt, but whatever magic worked the night before to earn him an invite back to her place is apparently in short supply the morning after. She hurries him along, hustling him on his way, but they’re interrupted by Julia’s nosy neighbor, Angel (Carlos Areces). Angel has a crush on »
- Rob Hunter
[Interview] ‘Extraterrestrial’ Writer/Director Nacho Vigalondo on Humanity, Hitchcock & More
14 June 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
After finding great international success with his debut feature film Timecrimes in 2007, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo performed a bit of a 180 for his sophomore effort.
Coming to the Toronto International Film Festival last year with a romantic comedy set to the backdrop of an alien invasion, his Extraterrestrial showed he would not be pigeonholed to dark thrillers with twists a la M. Night Shyamalan. It’s a move that showed his versatility and creative story-telling approach—two things that must have appealed to Hollywood with him now attached to direct an adaptation of Mark Millar‘s Supercrooks.
I had the pleasure of speaking with the auteur recently about his new film and his love of time as both motif and plot construction. A good-humored, self-deprecating soul, Nacho Vigalondo’s name deserves to be remembered from this point forward if it hasn’t already. His cinematic future is looking very bright. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
[Review] Extraterrestrial
13 June 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
You wake in a strange place without memory of arriving. You see light’s curved shadows on the wall through clouded eyes while a chorus of clanging is heard in the next room. Disoriented, mildly frightened, and without a clue to what is going on, you’re lost trying to recall the erased minutes of an alcohol-infused evening eerily similar to a crackpot’s account of alien abduction. But rather than a greyed creature with probe in hand, the figure moving in the kitchen is an attractive young woman wearing only a t-shirt. As startled as you by the circumstances of your cohabitation, the realization of what more than likely transpired in your drunken haze only escalates a palpable awkwardness further. A one-night stand that forgot to end, your embarrassed goodbyes are interrupted after discovering the spaceship hovering outside the window.
This is our introduction to Julio (Julián Villagrán) and »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Diff 2012 Reviews: ‘Extraterrestrial,’ ‘Bindlestiffs,’ ‘Quick,’ ‘Robocop’
18 May 2012 1:54 PM, PDT | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
“Extraterrestrial”
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Michelle Jenner, Carlos Areces, Julián Villagrán
“Extraterrestrial” is a movie I’ve been excited about for a while, in part because of how it was marketed – the small, almost invisible glimpses of the alien ships in the posters, and the creative viral marketing aspect to it all. Later on, when it was revealed to be something of a comedy, with a smirking Spaniard looking out and holding a glowing tennis ball, everyone cocked their eyebrows, and wondered just what this thing was going to turn out to be.
It’s a slighter film than one would initially expect, being more dependent on the inter-dynamics of the three people and their ever-revolving love triangle at the heart of it than on any kind of spectacle that you would expect from an alien invasion movie, but that’s not particularly a bad thing. There »
- Henry J. Baugh
Trailer for Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial
8 February 2012 4:00 PM, PST | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
If you have not seen Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes, then literally stop reading this and seek it out. Today we have the full trailer for his next film Extraterrestrial, thanks to BleedingCool. The film looks to be another great genre film, and reminds me a bit of Signs mixed with Shaun of the Dead.
Here is the descripton from Tiff:
Nacho Vigalondo has already captivated audiences by blending genres in his relentlessly inventive debut feature, Timecrimes. For his follow-up Extraterrestrial, an ingenious take on the alien-invasion film, Vigalondo skilfully merges science fiction and romantic comedy — along with a wicked streak of gallows humour — to shed light on some of the less convivial elements of human behaviour.
Strangers Julio (Julián Villagrán) and Julia (Michelle Jenner) wake up beside one another in Julia’s apartment, groggy, hungover and unsure how they met. Julia is about to send Julio on »
- Tiberius
Watch: Full Trailer for Nacho Vigalondo's New Comedy 'Extraterrestre'
8 February 2012 8:37 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
"Love... is from another world." A brand new full-length trailer for Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo's new sci-fi/drama/comedy Extraterrestre, which just means Extraterrestrial in Spanish, has debuted over on Vimeo (via Bleeding Cool). Don't let that name trick you, this is barely sci-fi at all and there's not many extraterrestrials in it (no spoiler), but there is a beautiful lead actress by the name of Michelle Jenner. And you will watch this (over and over) for her alone. Julián Villagrán also stars as Julio, with Raúl Cimas and Carlos Areces. This trailer gives you an idea of the characters and how amusing is, give it a shot below. Watch the full subtitled official trailer for Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestre, embedded via Vimeo: "There’s only one sane response when you wake up to a sky full of alien invaders – run like hell. But what do you do if »
- Alex Billington
Trailer For ‘Extraterrestrial,’ a Sci-Fi Comedy From ‘Timecrimes’ Director Nacho Vigalondo
8 February 2012 7:57 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
After his excellent time-travel film Timecrimes, Nacho Vigalondo has changed things up for his next project, Extraterrestrial. I had the chance to check it out at Tiff (review here), where I had fun with the comedic elements, as this film is much more about relationships than science-fiction. The ending is muddled and unsatisfying, but the journey is a fun one.
We have a new trailer today (via Bleeding Cool) which provides our first subtitled look at the film for English-language audiences. It does a good job at conveying the best elements, the back-and-forth relationship with our male lead and the female, whose house he wakes up in. Check it out below for the film starring Julian Villagran, Michelle Jenner, Raul Cimas, Carlos Areces and Miguel Noguera.
Plot:
Strangers Julio (Julián Villagrán) and Julia (Michelle Jenner) wake up beside one another in Julia’s apartment, groggy, hungover and unsure how they met. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
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