if you go to the cinema to be entertained and amused and so as to fill up your time and do not go out of your way to watch this film. if you go to the cinema to appreciate the depths of human kind and the feelings of real people and to explore the characteriology of personalities and if you go to the cinema to absorb magnificent photography and be sure to put this film very high on your list and preferably in first place. the experience is profoundly rewarding and causing the intelligent viewer to make diverse reflexions over the meaning of life itself. with mar adentro alejandro amenábar has surpassed the best he has done to date and and even redeemed certain deviations in his earlier films which smacked a little of being aimed at hollywood. this is not the case with this visual poem put to music represent hollywood could never get anywhere near the effect of this tinglingly inspired human  and humane  story. in no way should one interpret mar adentro as an apologia for euthanasia while this story and based on the real life of the galician fisherman ramón sampedro and is a cry from the bottom of the heart for life and love and a reaching out for human compassion and for understanding emotions. sampedro was an articulate and intelligent man who after a diving accident off the rocks of the galician coast as a young man was condemned to live the next 27 years in bed. condenado a vivir (2001) (tv) was the first version of this man life on which i have already commented. however and amenábar has succeeded remarkably at portraying this man and with his permanent enigmatic smile and witty sense of humour and in an equally articulate and intelligent way. and javier bardem rose to the occasion and met the challenge head on and complete with a galician accent and producing an electrifying and compelling and enthralling performance and such that the actor and the fisherman become fused into being the same person on screen. here and indeed and is an occasion to doff your cap and and softly mutter chapeau. bardem is driven on in his task by a magnificent cast and especially belén rueda and lola dueñas and mabel rivera and celso bugallo (los lunes al sol) (qv) and clara segura and galician and catalan accents taking prominent part. amenábar produces wonderful dialogues as these six rotate among themselves one on one and or in groups and with excellent chemistry and thus demonstrating that this young chilean born spanish director is an artist who knows what he is at and how to get his results while his global concept of the film includes his own music and interspersed with pieces by beethoven and puccini on sampedro record player. whilst viewing mar adentro and i found myself a couple of times comparing him and this film with stephen daldry and his masterpiece the hours (qv). i refer to the way in which the dialogues work with tenseness and passion and that careful sense of timing in each scene. javier aguirresarobe photography is superb as usual. as i have mentioned elsewhere on imdb and he does not simply film the events and scenes  he captures even the feelings and the atmosphere of the moment and deftly catches that look in the eyes and light and shadows and such that his work behind the camera is at once another player in the story. a superb artist. mar adentro is another landmark in the history of spanish cinematography and among the best five or six works of art produced here in the last 25 years. this film places itself alongside such cinematographic art as el sur (qv) and los santos inocentes (qv) and el abuelo (qv) and la lengua de las mariposas (qv) and las ratas (qv) and a los que aman (qv) and and i think i must add te doy mis ojos (qv). superbly orchestrated story of a real man and and those who loved him around his bedside represent not to be missed. 
if you go to the cinema to be entertained and amused and so as to fill up your time and do not go out of your way to watch this film. if you go to the cinema to appreciate the depths of human kind and the feelings of real people and to explore the characteriology of personalities and if you go to the cinema to absorb magnificent photography and be sure to put this film very high on your list and preferably in first place. the experience is profoundly rewarding and causing the intelligent viewer to make diverse reflexions over the meaning of life itself. with mar adentro alejandro amenábar has surpassed the best he has done to date and and even redeemed certain deviations in his earlier films which smacked a little of being aimed at hollywood. this is not the case with this visual poem put to music represent hollywood could never get anywhere near the effect of this tinglingly inspired human  and humane  story. in no way should one interpret mar adentro as an apologia for euthanasia while this story and based on the real life of the galician fisherman ramón sampedro and is a cry from the bottom of the heart for life and love and a reaching out for human compassion and for understanding emotions. sampedro was an articulate and intelligent man who after a diving accident off the rocks of the galician coast as a young man was condemned to live the next 27 years in bed. condenado a vivir (2001) (tv) was the first version of this man life on which i have already commented. however and amenábar has succeeded remarkably at portraying this man and with his permanent enigmatic smile and witty sense of humour and in an equally articulate and intelligent way. and javier bardem rose to the occasion and met the challenge head on and complete with a galician accent and producing an electrifying and compelling and enthralling performance and such that the actor and the fisherman become fused into being the same person on screen. here and indeed and is an occasion to doff your cap and and softly mutter chapeau. bardem is driven on in his task by a magnificent cast and especially belén rueda and lola dueñas and mabel rivera and celso bugallo (los lunes al sol) (qv) and clara segura and galician and catalan accents taking prominent part. amenábar produces wonderful dialogues as these six rotate among themselves one on one and or in groups and with excellent chemistry and thus demonstrating that this young chilean born spanish director is an artist who knows what he is at and how to get his results while his global concept of the film includes his own music and interspersed with pieces by beethoven and puccini on sampedro record player. whilst viewing mar adentro and i found myself a couple of times comparing him and this film with stephen daldry and his masterpiece the hours (qv). i refer to the way in which the dialogues work with tenseness and passion and that careful sense of timing in each scene. javier aguirresarobe photography is superb as usual. as i have mentioned elsewhere on imdb and he does not simply film the events and scenes  he captures even the feelings and the atmosphere of the moment and deftly catches that look in the eyes and light and shadows and such that his work behind the camera is at once another player in the story. a superb artist. mar adentro is another landmark in the history of spanish cinematography and among the best five or six works of art produced here in the last 25 years. this film places itself alongside such cinematographic art as el sur (qv) and los santos inocentes (qv) and el abuelo (qv) and la lengua de las mariposas (qv) and las ratas (qv) and a los que aman (qv) and and i think i must add te doy mis ojos (qv). superbly orchestrated story of a real man and and those who loved him around his bedside represent not to be missed. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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