Icíar Bollaín

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jun 12, 1967 (58 years old)

Icíar Bollaín

Known For

The Critic
1h 20m
Movie 2022

The Critic

A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cinema, surrounded by controversy and both love and hate.

Rage
1h 29m
Movie 2009

Rage

A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.

Land and Freedom
1h 49m
Movie 1995

Land and Freedom

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Dime una mentira
Movie 1993

Dime una mentira

Sublet
1h 28m
Movie 1992

Sublet

Laura is a young woman from Madrid who lives in the most degraded area of ​​New York. There he lives a series of anecdotes that make up his day-to-day life in the United States

Un paraguas para tres
1h 30m
Movie 1992

Un paraguas para tres

Having just split up with their respective partners, Maria and Daniel meet in a shop where they argue over a bed. From then on, they keep running into each other in all sorts of strange places and in all sorts of circumstances. They are mutually attracted and begin to intrepret the coincidences of their meeting as sign of fate, but they are hesitant to take the plunge. This little game of love and fate becomes even more complicated when Pierre, a French teacher, and Alicia, Maria's friend, become involved..Who will seduce whom?...Who will be seduced by whom?...After a series of misunderstandings, love settles the question.

Doblones de a ocho
Movie 1990

Doblones de a ocho

El Mejor de los Tiempos
1h 49m
Movie 1989

El Mejor de los Tiempos

Misadventure
1h 30m
Movie 1988

Misadventure

An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville.

Biography

Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born June 12, 1967; Madrid) is a Spanish actress, director and writer. Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films. Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you alone? in English) (1995) was her first feature film as director, a story about two young girls who dream of finding an earthly paradise, and undertake a long trip towards the sea. Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from another world in English) (1999) was her second feature film, which she co-wrote with Julio Llamazares. It is the story of four women who travel to rural Spain with the hopes of finding love. Her latest film as writer and director is Te Doy Mis Ojos (I'll give you my eyes in English) (2003) which won seven Goya awards including Best Film. The movie is about the abusive marriage relationship between Pilar and Antonio. Her 2010 film Even the Rain was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In January 2011, the film made the final nine shortlist.

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