''Doghead'' ( es, Cabeza de perro, links=no) is a 2006 Spanish drama film directed, written and scored by

Santi Amodeo Santiago José "Santi" Amodeo Ojeda (born 1969) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, musician and composer. Biography Santi was born in Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous comm ...

starring

Juan José Ballesta Juan José Ballesta Muñoz, also known as Juanjo Ballesta (born 12 November 1987) is a Spanish actor. Biography Born on 12 November 1987 in Parla, Ballesta grew up in Toledo. He had his debut performance in television in 1997, starring in t ...

and Adriana Ugarte.

Plot

Displaying a

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-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 Cinematográficas and La Zanfoña Producciones production, the film had the participation of

Canal Sur Canal Sur ('South Channel') is part of Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA), the public broadcasting company of Andalusia. It was created by means of the devolved powers given to this region by an Act of Parliament in its statute of autono ...

and

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. Shooting took place in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

, Costa del Sol and

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

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 Sebastian Bieniek (middle), press conference 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival The 2007 Shanghai International Film Festival was the 10th such festival devoted to international cinema to be held in the city of Shanghai in the People's Repub ...

held in June 2007.

Reception

Jonathan Holland of ''

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'', 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 Ocaña of '' El País'', 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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21st Goya Awards The 21st Annual Goya Awards took place at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos in Madrid, Spain on 28 January 2007. ''Volver ''Volver'' (, meaning "to go back") is a 2006 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The ...

, , Best New Actress , , Adriana Ugarte , , , , align = "center" , , - ,

, , Best Actor , , Juan José Ballesta , , , , align = "center",

References

External links

''Doghead''
at ICAA's ''Catálogo de Cinespañol'' {{authority control 2006 drama films 2006 films Spanish drama films 2000s Spanish-language films Films shot in Andalusia Films shot in the province of Seville Films shot in Madrid 2000s Spanish films