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Doghead (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Doghead' is a 2006 Spanish drama film directed, written and scored by Santi Amodeo starring Juan Jos Ballesta and Adriana Ugarte.
Plot
Displaying a fable-like tone and an omniscient off-camera narrator, the plot tracks the mishaps of Samuel, affected by a rare neurological condition and overprotected by his family.
Cast
Production
A Tesela Producciones Cinematogrficas and La Zanfoa Producciones production, the film had the participation of Canal Sur and Canal+. Shooting took place in Seville, Costa del Sol and Madrid.
Released
Distributed by Alta Classics, 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.
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".
Javier Ocaa of 'El Pas', 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".
Accolades
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| align = "center" rowspan = "2" | 2007 || 21st Goya Awards || Best New Actress || Adriana Ugarte || || align = "center" |
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| 10th Shanghai International Film Festival || Best Actor || Juan Jos Ballesta || || align = "center"|
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See also
* List of Spanish films of 2006
References
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