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12 April 1996 (Spain)
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Tagline:
Me llamo Ángela. Me van a matar. [English Tagline: My name is Angela. They're going to kill me.]
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While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty... full summary | full synopsis
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14 wins
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4 nominations
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(5 articles)
The M/C Review: Amenebar's 'Agora' lovely but thin
(From Hitfix. 14 November 2009, 8:30 PM, PST)
First stills from Amenábar's 'Agora'
(From screeninglog. 1 December 2008, 7:14 PM, PST)
(From Hitfix. 14 November 2009, 8:30 PM, PST)
First stills from Amenábar's 'Agora'
(From screeninglog. 1 December 2008, 7:14 PM, PST)
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Very good first feature
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ana Torrent | ... | Ángela | |
| Fele Martínez | ... | Chema | |
| Eduardo Noriega | ... | Bosco | |
| Xabier Elorriaga | ... | Castro | |
| Miguel Picazo | ... | Figueroa | |
| Nieves Herranz | ... | Sena | |
| Rosa Campillo | ... | Yolanda | |
| Paco Hernández | ... | Padre Angela (as Francisco Hernández) | |
| Rosa Ávila | ... | Madre Angela | |
| Teresa Castanedo | ... | Presentadora T.V. | |
| José Miguel Caballero | ... | Conserje Videoteca | |
| Joserra Cadiñanos | ... | Vigilante | |
| Julio Vélez | ... | Encargado tren | |
| Pilar Ortega | ... | Encargada C. Ventas | |
| Olga Margallo | ... | Vanessa |
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Also Known As:
Thesis (UK) (festival title) (USA) (video title)
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Rated R for strong and perverse violent content, brief strong sexuality and strong language.
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125 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Argentina:16 |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-16 |
Germany:18 (video premiere) |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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Amenábar wrote some of this film while still at University, and that University was the Complutense, as featured in this film.
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Continuity: When professor Figueroa finds the door to the secret library of snuff movies, before he enters, he wears glasses. In he next shot, as he enters the door, the glasses are gone, but they come back some shots after.
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Ángela Márquez:
My name is Angela. They're going to kill me.
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Featured in Cómo se hizo 'Tesis' (1996) (TV)
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A promising director: it's what I thought after the screening of Amenabar's first feature. There is a compelling story told with bright creative ideas.
Eventually I felt the first part of the movie was really great and the following went a little under. Sure, it is more difficult to bring all sorts of things together after you built up an exciting suspense. Still you don't feel bored once you are getting to know what it is really all about, but you got more free 'RAM space' to think it over. Perhaps accelerating the rhythm would have kept Tesis on the same high level of suspense. Perhaps it would have been a mistake to change the pace.
Among things you can take away with you is the background theme about our attraction for the morbid. It opens and closes the movie and really gives it one further dimension - one could say it's a bit didactical but it's a least flaw for a first major effort.
Next step Senor Amenabar: a little less personal work (as compared with the experimental Abre los ojos) but still something personal (The Others is the least interesting work so far).