The Sea Inside

Zachary T.

Given that the film is almost entirely chronological, much of the dramatic heavy lifting falls to a bedridden Bardem, who transfixes with subtlety and humour. The supporting cast is fantastic too, and despite employing more than a few directorial tropes, much of the fact-based story is handled delicately.

Ana Sousa

I can't describe how human this film is. How human it made me feel. Bardem, you are one of the greatest actors alive.

Nicholas Gregory

Transcends its melodrama and easy sentimentalizing into an effectively handled, thoughtful, and grandly acted crowd-pleaser. While the filmmaker obviously sides with the Bardem character's wishes, and this bias may turn off some, if one views the movie as solely a casemaker for the right to death with dignity, it validates this tough decision in a humanistic way. Easy to get the meaning, but hard to forget.

Jérémy Poirier

Javier Bardem gives a heartbreaking performance. A truly beautiful and human film. "But I always wake up / and I always wish I'd be dead / to have my lips / entangled in your hair"

galuh indri

"When you can't escape, and you constantly rely on everyone else, you learn to cry by smiling, you know?" Goddem Bardem!(i)

Dylan Cassidy

Bardem, I think, is one of the greatest actors of all time. No pretense.

lowplacelikehome

"Out to sea. Out to sea, and in the weightlessness of the deep where dreams come true, two souls unite to fulfill a single wish. Your gaze and mine, over and over like an echo, repeating silently: "Deeper, and deeper," beyond everything that is flesh and blood. But I always awaken and I always wish for death, my lips forever entangled in your hair."

Valerie Kinoo Bedda

Beautiful movie that treats the delicate subject of the right to end one's life with great intelligence, subtlety, sensitivity and poetry. Never inappropriate nor off the mark, filled with humorous notes and great actors.