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Thesis

Tesis

1996

Alejandro Amenábar

Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Nieves Herranz ...

7.7

97,370

Mystery. Thriller Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show? That's the subject of Ángela's examination paper. She is a young student at a film school in Madrid. Together with the student Chema (who is totally obsessed with violent movies) they find a snuff movie in which a young girl is tortured and killed. Soon they discover that the girl was a former student at their school... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jason Newman Rolling Stone	"Alejandro Amenábar balances actual, terrifying visuals with Hitchcockian red herrings for one of the best debut films in years"	POS
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"Despite some whopping improbabilities 'Thesis' generates genuine tension"	POS

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