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Extraterrestrial

Extraterrestre

Spain

2011

90 Min
Color
2.35:1
Spanish
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DIR Nacho Vigalondo

EXEC Garrett Basch, Enrique López Lavigne

PROD Nahikari Ipiña, Nacho Vigalondo

SCR Nacho Vigalondo

DP Jon D. Domínguez

CAST Julián Villagrán, Michelle Jenner, Raúl Cimas, Carlos Areces, Miguel Noguera

PROD DES Idoia Esteban

MUSIC Jorge Magaz

San Sebastián (Zabaltegi-Specials), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), AFI FEST (World Cinema)

Synopsis

When strangers Julio and Julia wake up together, groggy and hung-over from the night before, the last thing they are expecting is to discover that an alien invasion has taken place. In Extraterrestre, Nacho Vigalondo melds science fiction, romance and black comedy in his latest feature about the darkly fascinating aspects of the human psyche. –TIFF

Director

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Nacho Vigalondo

Cabezón de la Sal, 1977. Nacho’s short film 7:35 de la mañana (7.35 In The Morning), which he wrote, directed and starred in, not only won more than 60 national and international awards but was also nominated as best short film by the European Film Academy and the Oscar Academy Awards in Hollywood. His first feature film, Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes), is a sci-fi story about time travel. He is currently combining his film projects with the production of advertisements and various screenwriting and acting tasks for theatre, radio and television. —kimuak.com 

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Erik Gregersen

21Jan13

Something like the rom-com child of Burn After Reading and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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Henrique Amud

16Jan13

It is hilarious and it is smart and it is so very simple and unpredictable in it's amazing but limited premise that it only reassured my love for all things Vigalondo. And I'm glad he didn't act cos he's not very good at it.

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Luisa

8Jan13

A bit funny.

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TheotherJones

25Nov12

No, sir, I don't like it.

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What if you slept through the alien invasion?

By Michael Harbour on March 4, 2012

What if you slept through the alien invasion?

I mean, you hooked up with a hot girl so the night was well spent. Probably. Neither of you remember for sure how far it went. But you did wake…  read review

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