Amador

Spain

2010

112 Min

Color

2.35:1

Spanish

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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EXEC Javier Méndez, Patricia de Muns

PROD Fernando León de Aranoa, Jaume Roures

CAST Magaly Solier, Celso Bugallo, Pietro Sibille, Sonia Almarcha, Fanny de Castro, Manolo Solo, Eleazar Ortiz, Antonio Durán 'Morris'

SOUND Iván Marín, Alfonso Raposo, Daniel Peña

Berlinale (Panorama Special), Transilvania (3x3 - Fernando Léon de Aranoa), London (Cinema Europa), Athens (Premieres), Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time), Chicago (World Cinema), Göteborg (Fem kontinenter)

Synopsis

Marcela is a young woman in financial straits. She is delighted when she finds a new job: she is to spend the summer looking after an old, bedridden man named Amador and keep him company every day as long as his rela- tives are on holiday. Marcela and Amador are soon sharing all sorts of secrets.

Marcela is pregnant – has been so for several months. She hasn’t told a soul yet, not even her boyfriend, whom she doesn’t really trust. Amador knows that he does not have much longer to live; he can even feel his life slipping away from him. Perhaps this is why he is the only one who has been able to sense the new life growing inside Marcela.

The relationship that evolves between Marcela and Amador from now on may well stem from this proximity between life and death. Side by side, the two spend a lot of time together day after day in Amador’s tiny bedroom where Marcela sits beside his bed. But then, one day, Amador dies. His death makes Marcela unemployed and puts the young woman in a quan- dary. But she finds a way out of her moral dilemma. Together with Amador, Marcela will prove that death doesn’t necessarily put an end to life. – Berlinale

Director

Fernando León de Aranoa

Fernando León de Aranoa was born in Madrid in may 1968 and has a degree in image Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. She started working as a screenwriter in television series such as turn on its own initiative, in programmes as the Un, dos, tres… responda otra vez and writing for comics Tuesday and thirteen.

His behind the camera debut in 1994 with the short film “sirens”, which was awarded in several national festivals.His first feature film was “family” (1996) which as usual his work also wrote the screenplay. In recognition of this film was awarded the Goya Award for best novel Director, as well as Valladolid SEMINCI audience award and the Fipresci award. The play was later adapted into the scene represented in several countries and stage

In 1998 he wrote and directed “neighborhood”, portrait of the lives of three young teens in a slum. Thanks to this job gets Awards Goya Best Director and best original screenplay. The film was presented in the official… read more

Fernando León de Aranoa was born in Madrid in may 1968 and has a degree in image Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. She started working as a screenwriter in television series such as turn on its own initiative, in programmes as the Un, dos, tres… responda otra vez and writing for comics Tuesday and thirteen.

His behind the camera debut in 1994 with the short film “sirens”, which was awarded in several national festivals.His first feature film was “family” (1996) which as usual his work also wrote the screenplay. In recognition of this film was awarded the Goya Award for best novel Director, as well as Valladolid SEMINCI audience award and the Fipresci award. The play was later adapted into the scene represented in several countries and stage

In 1998 he wrote and directed “neighborhood”, portrait of the lives of three young teens in a slum. Thanks to this job gets Awards Goya Best Director and best original screenplay. The film was presented in the official section of the San sebastian Festival where he earned the silver shell for best director. The film received other major awards as the Fipresci Prize, Fotogramas de plata for the best Spanish film, Prize José María Forqué, Sant Jordi and the Turia, among others.

In 2002 he directed “Mondays in the Sun”, starring Javier bardem, which becomes the great reigns supreme this year at the Goya Awards winning five awards including best picture and best director. The film also triumphs in the San Sebastian Film Festival towards the Concha de Oro for best film. The Spain motion picture Sciences and Academy selects the film to represent Spain at the Oscar in the category of best non-English language film, although cannot be one of the five nominated.

“Princesses” (2005), would be his fourth film as director and screenwriter, his debut as a producer after you create your own productrora (Reposado). The film was seen by more than a million viewers, received three Goya Awards from the Spanish Academy of cinema – its two actors actresses and best original song, composed by Manu chao – as well as the premio waves the event movie of the year award and the best film actors. He also participated in the official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.

As documentary filmmaker has directed Mexico “walkers” (2001), award-winning Festival of Havana, Los Angeles, New York and Alcalá de Henares and 2007 took part in the documentary Invisibles directing the chapter titled Buenas noches, Ouma. This documentary also featured the participation of other directors such as Mariano Barroso, Isabel coixet, wim wenders and Javier Corcuera and was awarded the Goya Award for best documentary. In the field of documentaries on 1997 wrote the script of the documentary the back of the world and collaborated in the direction of Izbieglize in 1994.

His work as a screenwriter has not only focused on his own films, they typed hyphens as Fausto 5.0, ‘ve and crazy heart. He has published several short stories and short stories having received by Antonio Machado prize twice. He has also worked as a cartoonist and Illustrator. —screenwritersforhire.com

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