Tesis
Alejandro Amenabar
Angela is studying communications and working on a thesis on violence in the media. Her teacher offers to help her find extremely violent films at the video library. The next day an old man is found dead in the university screening room. With her classmate Chema, Angela decides to watch the cassette left in the VCR and discovers a snuff movie, the recording of a real murder where a woman is tortured to death...
With : Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Miguel Picazo
Screenplay : Alejandro Amenábar
Image : Hans Burmann
Editing : María Elena Sáinz de Rozas
Decors : Wolfgang Burmann
Music : Mariano Marin
Screenplay : Alejandro Amenábar
Image : Hans Burmann
Editing : María Elena Sáinz de Rozas
Decors : Wolfgang Burmann
Music : Mariano Marin
Production : Las Producciones del Escorpión
Distribution: Sogepaq
Distribution: Sogepaq
In the tradition of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, Tesis (Thesis) is a film which questions the audience on their visual curiosity and their taste for violence. For his first feature, Alejandro Amenábar also queries the responsibility of the filmmaker by placing the action at the heart of the institution where the foundations of cinema are learnt: the Faculty of Communication Sciences in Madrid. Tesis lays down the formal and thematic foundations of Amenábar's genre films: playing with the realism of the characters, he manipulates the spectator in a very Machiavellian way. The film also provides an opportunity to see Ana Torrent, 20 years after Carlos Saura's Cria Cuervos. It also revealed Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega.