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Release Date: Dec 17, 2004
Running Time: 125 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue Spanish, subtitled English
Country Of Origin: Spain
Country Of Origin: Italy
Country Of Origin: France
synopsis
Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.
cast + crew
Director
Ramon Sampedro
Julia
Rosa
Manuela
Jose
Gene
Joaquin
German
Javi
Father Francisco
Screenplay
Screenplay
Producer
Producer
reviews
Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar, the man who brought us the mind-bending Open Your Eyes (remade as Vanilla Sky) and the spooky The Others, here lends his considerable style to what might easily be another run-of-the-mill biopic. When Ramón daydreams about walking on the beach, the camera flies out the window, traveling over the countryside to the coast, where the bedridden Ramón can no longer go. It's not just a visual metaphor for the power and freedom of thought, but the director… 
PETER TRAVERS -
June 2, 2005
When Javier Bardem played a wheelchair-bound philanderer in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, he was compelling. Here, as quadriplegic inventor Ramen Sampedro -- who insists, "I want to die because life like this has no dignity" while continuing to type with a pointer held in his teeth -- Bardem is ludicrous. With plenty of tears and ponderous shots of the sea, this is the most overwrought handling of the right-to-die question since Million Dollar Baby. For those who couldn't get enough of Terri…
PETER TRAVERS -
January 6, 2005
OK, it sounds like a slog -- yet another movie of the Whose Life Is It Anyway? school in which a quadriplegic fights for the right to die. But hang on for this riveting true story of Ramon Sampedro (Javier Bardem), the Spanish sailor who ruptured his spine in a diving accident at twenty-six and spends the next thirty years being cared for on his family's farm in Galicia. What could have been a preachy biopic becomes poetry in the hands of the gifted director and writer and editor and composer…
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