Tesis
Alejandro Amenabar
Angela, a film student, is preparing her thesis on violence in audiovisual media. To help her along, professor Figueora proposes that she do research in the university video library. The next day, Angela finds the professor dead in the projection room...
With : Ana Torrent, Fele Martinez, Eduardo Noriega, Miguel Picazo
Screenplay : Alejandro Amenabar
Image : Hans Burman
Music : Alejandro Amenabar
Screenplay : Alejandro Amenabar
Image : Hans Burman
Music : Alejandro Amenabar
Production : Las Producciones del Escorpion
Distribution: Colifilms Distribution
Distribution: Colifilms Distribution
The first feature-length film by the director of Open Your Eyes and The Others, Thesis is a thriller classically and efficiently built around a snuff movie – a recurrent fantasy of the film-buff's imagination – with a controlled suspense that offers the sudden reversals of fortune and anxious stress typical of the genre. "Thesis is a true first film, from Spain, with two qualities rarely brought together in a first work: talent and a sense of responsibility. The directing – fast-paced – is based on one principle: show nothing. One doesn't see the horror, but one knows that the horror is there... A film inhabited by a real anxiety about the evolution of the moving image" (J.P. Jeancolas).