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Writers:

Alejandro Amenábar (screenplay) and
Mateo Gil (screenplay)

Contact:

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Release Date:

3 September 2004 (Italy) more

Genre:

Biography | Drama more

Plot:

The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 59 wins & 30 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(45 articles)

Penélope Cruz – Broken Embraces Photos
 (From Alternative Film Guide. 19 October 2009, 5:25 PM, PDT)

Christoph Waltz to Be Honored at the Hollywood Film Festival
 (From MovieWeb. 17 October 2009, 6:48 AM, PDT)

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Life is a right, not an obligation more (117 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Javier Bardem ... Ramón Sampedro
Belén Rueda ... Julia
Lola Dueñas ... Rosa
Mabel Rivera ... Manuela
Celso Bugallo ... José
Clara Segura ... Gené
Joan Dalmau ... Joaquín
Alberto Jiménez ... Germán
Tamar Novas ... Javi
Francesc Garrido ... Marc
Josep Maria Pou ... Padre Francisco (as José María Pou)

Alberto Amarilla ... Hermano Andrés
Andrea Occhipinti ... Santiago
Federico Pérez Rey ... Conductor
Nicolás Fernández Luna ... Cristian
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Sea Inside (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
Mare dentro (Italy)
The Sea Within (Europe: English title)
Gråta med ett leende (Finland: Swedish title) (Sweden) [sv]
Море внутри (Russia) [ru]
Belsö tenger (Hungary) [hu]
Das Meer in mir (Germany) [de]
Havet innenfor (Norway) [no]
I thalassa mesa mou (Greece) [el]
Içimdeki deniz (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Mar Adentro (Brazil) [pt]
Marea dinauntru (Romania) [ro]
Meri sisälläni (Finland) [fi]
Mit indre hav (Denmark) [da]
Sisemeri (Estonia) [et]
W strone morza (Poland) [pl]
Zivot je more (Croatia) [hr]
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MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense depiction of mature thematic material.

Runtime:

125 min

Country:

Spain | France | Italy

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Company:

Sogepaq more


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Trivia:

Three months before Spanish premiere, Alejandro Amenábar gave a photo to the media to be shown all over the nation to make people get used to Bardem's make-up and forget about it while watching the film to pay attention to his performance. more

Quotes:

Ramón Sampedro: When you can't escape, and you constantly rely on everyone else, you learn to cry by smiling, you know? more

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV) more

Soundtrack:

Nessun dorma more


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145 out of 165 people found the following comment useful.
Life is a right, not an obligation, 1 October 2004
9/10
Author: Keith F. Hatcher from La Rioja, Spain

If you go to the cinema to be entertained, amused, so as to fill up your time, do not go out of your way to watch this film.

If you go to the cinema to appreciate the depths of human-kind, the feelings of real people, to explore the characteriology of personalities, if you go to the cinema to absorb magnificent photography, be sure to put this film very high on your list, preferably in first place. The experience is profoundly rewarding, causing the intelligent viewer to make diverse reflexions over the meaning of life itself. With 'Mar Adentro' Alejandro Amenábar has surpassed the best he has done to date, and even redeemed certain deviations in his earlier films which smacked a little of being aimed at Hollywood. This is not the case with this visual poem put to music: Hollywood could never get anywhere near the effect of this tinglingly inspired human - and humane - story.

In no way should one interpret 'Mar Adentro' as an apologia for euthanasia; this story, based on the real life of the Galician fisherman Ramón Sampedro, is a cry from the bottom of the heart for life and love, a reaching out for human compassion, for understanding emotions. Sampedro was an articulate and intelligent man who after a diving accident off the rocks of the Galician coast as a young man was condemned to live the next 27 years in bed. 'Condenado a vivir' (2001) (TV) was the first version of this man's life on which I have already commented. However, Amenábar has succeeded remarkably at portraying this man, with his permanent enigmatic smile and witty sense of humour, in an equally articulate and intelligent way.

And Javier Bardem rose to the occasion, met the challenge head-on, complete with a Galician accent, producing an electrifying, compelling, enthralling performance, such that the actor and the fisherman become fused into being the same person on screen. Here, indeed, is an occasion to doff your cap, and softly mutter 'chapeau'. Bardem is driven on in his task by a magnificent cast, especially Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera, Celso Bugallo (Los Lunes al Sol) (qv) and Clara Segura, Galician and Catalan accents taking prominent part.

Amenábar produces wonderful dialogues as these six rotate among themselves one-on-one, or in groups, with excellent chemistry, thus demonstrating that this young Chilean-born Spanish director is an artist who knows what he is at and how to get his results; his global concept of the film includes his own music, interspersed with pieces by Beethoven and Puccini on Sampedro's record-player.

Whilst viewing 'Mar Adentro', I found myself a couple of times comparing him and this film with Stephen Daldry and his masterpiece 'The Hours' (qv). I refer to the way in which the dialogues work with tenseness and passion and that careful sense of timing in each scene.

Javier Aguirresarobe's photography is superb as usual. As I have mentioned elsewhere on IMDb, he does not simply film the events and scenes - he captures even the feelings and the atmosphere of the moment, deftly catches that look in the eyes, light and shadows, such that his work behind the camera is at once another player in the story. A superb artist.

'Mar Adentro' is another landmark in the history of Spanish cinematography, among the best five or six works of art produced here in the last 25 years. This film places itself alongside such cinematographic art as 'El Sur' (qv), 'Los Santos Inocentes' (qv), 'El Abuelo' (qv), 'La Lengua de las Mariposas' (qv), 'Las Ratas' (qv), 'A Los Que Aman' (qv), and I think I must add 'Te Doy Mis Ojos' (qv).

Superbly orchestrated story of a real man, and those who loved him around his bedside: not to be missed.

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