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Doghead (film)
2006 Spanish film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Doghead (Spanish: Cabeza de perro) is a 2006 Spanish drama film directed, written and scored by Santi Amodeo starring Juan José Ballesta and Adriana Ugarte.
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Plot
Displaying a fable-like tone and an omniscient off-camera narrator,[1] the plot tracks the mishaps of Samuel, affected by a rare neurological condition and overprotected by his family.[2]
Cast
- Juan José Ballesta as Samuel[3]
- Adriana Ugarte as Consuelo[3]
- Julián Villagrán as Eduardo[3]
- Ana Wagener as Rosa[3]
- Alex O'Dogherty as narrador[4]
- Manuel Alexandre as Angelito[3]
- Juanma Lara[5]
- Jorge Roelas[3]
- Jimmy Roca as Moobi[6]
- Jordi Dauder[7]
- Ana Gracia[3]
- Mariano Peña[3]
Production
A Tesela Producciones Cinematográficas and La Zanfoña Producciones production,[8] the film had the participation of Canal Sur and Canal+.[3] Shooting took place in Seville, Costa del Sol and Madrid.[5][7]
Released
Distributed by Alta Classics,[3] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 October 2006. The film also screened at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival held in June 2007.[9]
Reception
Jonathan Holland of Variety, deemed Doghead to be a "revitalizing, winsomely idiosyncratic" film, with the result of Amodeo's craft being "a visually striking, deceptively subtle item that revels in its unconventionality".[3]
Javier Ocaña of El País, considered that the film possesses "a very special magic and a strange poetry", blending in "a modern visualization and a script between the profound and the candorous".[1]
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