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Tiro en la cabeza (2008)
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Jaime Rosales (written by)
Release Date:
3 October 2008 (Spain)
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Cannes 2009 Producer's Patch: The Match Factory
(From ioncinema. 14 May 2009)
Jaime Rosales Takes A BULLET IN THE HEAD (TIRO EN LA CABEZA)
(From Twitch. 18 September 2008, 2:11 PM, PDT)
(From ioncinema. 14 May 2009)
Jaime Rosales Takes A BULLET IN THE HEAD (TIRO EN LA CABEZA)
(From Twitch. 18 September 2008, 2:11 PM, PDT)
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Imperfect but much needed experiment.
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Asun Arretxe | ... | Asun | |
| Ion Arretxe | ... | Ion | |
| Nerea Cobreros | ... | Ane | |
| Monique Durin-Noury | ... | Dueña casa Francia | |
| Manza Gebara | ... | Abogado 2 | |
| Diego Gutiérrez | ... | Guardia Civil Maqueda | |
| José Ángel Lopetegui | ... | Amigo | |
| Iván Moreno | ... | Guardia Civil Alonso | |
| Jaione Otxone | ... | Garbiñe | |
| Stephanie Pecastaing | ... | Stephanie | |
| Iñigo Royo | ... | Lara | |
| Mikel Tello | ... | Abogado 1 | |
| Gilles Vaxelaire | ... | Dueño casa Francia | |
| Ana Vila | ... | Susana |
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Bullet in the Head (USA) (festival title)
Un tir dans la tête (France)
Un tiro en la nuca (Spain) (working title)
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Un tir dans la tête (France)
Un tiro en la nuca (Spain) (working title)
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Already in production when Rosales got several Goya awards for the outstanding "La soledad", "Tiro en la cabeza" echoes another experiment made by Alan Clarke in the late 1980s called "Elephant". It is a cold, austere work that doesn't allow the viewer to feel for or identify with the characters for most of its duration. Rosales makes sure of this by using an almost surveillance-like camera-work. It all feels very distant. Sound-wise, the Spanish filmmaker keep us away from the dialogue too; politically mistreated and overexploited feature in the Basque conflict that, although present in the film, we don't have access to. The general decontextualization and the suppression of the ideological element in the film help to accentuate the absurdity in the final events. Overall, an imperfect but much needed both exploration of the possibilities of cinema and view on the Basque conflict.