public San Sebastian welcomed with a round of applause “ regression “, the last work of the filmmaker expected Alejandro Amenábar that traveled between thriller and terror , in a film that officially inaugurated the Film Festival this Basque city.
“ starts as a horror film, then a thriller and ends as a drama , “Amenabar said in the press conference after the screening of his film, which is returning to the big screen after a six year absence.
“Do not just give the story” simply said the author of “thesis” or “Agora” to explain his delay in returning to direct a film, which opened outside the official competition section of the festival, in the which until February 26 22 tapes, seventeen of them will be exhibited in the running for the Golden Shell, the highest honor of the event.
“ I wanted to make a horror movie and thinking possible narratives excuses, I thought vampires, satanism, devil, I thought that might be a good starting point (…) but could not see the way to find a new approach , “Amenabar said.
“Then I stumbled upon this phenomenon of satanic ritual abuse, I was surprised that we did not know any of this when he was a very strong phenomenon in the 80s in the United States and saw that allowed me to continue to keep the project on Satanism and also make a exploration of the world of the mind, “he said.
between fantasy and reality
The film tells the story of Angela, played by actress British Emma Watson , which accuses her father of molesting her.
A detective, played by actor Ethan Hawke investigate the case accompanied by a psychologist, who subjected the girl’s father to a regressive hypnosis. Gradually, the case will go it complicated to uncover a dark and evil secret.
“It started as a horror story and ended as a psychological thriller,” he said.
Amenábar readily admits the influential movies of the 70 and films like “The Exorcist” and “Rosemary’s Baby” and Alfred Hitchcock’s unavoidable.
“Hitchcock is on all sides, at the end, in the cinema, we all look toward Hitchcock,” says Amenábar, whose film opens next month in Europe and later in America.
The director of “The Others” praised the performance of the two main actors Hawke and Watson and told how the actor was interested in this story.
“He told me that there is something he does not like of horror movies is often put fear in people and this project is finally off fear, to terminate the fear of people, “said Amenábar.
The Director shall submit his film at the gala opening of the festival, Friday, which will also have an important role the Australian director George Miller . (Read “The Latin American cinema is very strong,” said director of San Sebastián).
The director of “Mad Max, road rage” will collect the FIPRESCI prize he was awarded the members of the International Federation Film Critics for that movie.
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