La Filmography of Álex de la Iglesia He accompanied my generation in that youth when they are looking for transgression, alternative creation and even black humor. The arrival of each new film by this director was received with that taste for surprise, discord, even stridency.
All within an indie roll that, in the case of making a lot of noise and being done with sufficient plot and artistic quality, ends up assaulting the most popular side. To thus provide a freshness always necessary among the most traditional creations. I remember great tapes from those days like "Mutant Action" or "Perdita Durango" or "800 bullets" ... While Almodóvar He turned on the lights to explode between lights and psychedelia, Álex de la Iglesia turned them off again.
This is how new films with a larger budget arrived later that continued to maintain that love for the desecration of the canons of an open-grave imagination. Black humor, suspense, touches of fantasy and a setting that seems to parody the gothic, making it closer, like in slippers. A gloomy presentation, but with more prosaic visions that arouse laughter or concern, depending on the moment.
But Alex de la Iglesia also probes, through humor, arguments with an acid, critical touch. I am referring to works such as "Crimen Ferpecto" or "The spark of life." The point is to reinvent the genres so as not to leave anyone indifferent. Each new film is that adventure in which its imprint can always be recognized but without being able to anticipate anything about the development and end of its plots.
Top 3 recommended films of Alex de la Iglesia
The Day of the Beast
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:More than despite the critics and perhaps also Alex de la Iglesia himself, his great film par excellence is this production set to the music of Def Con Dos. A histrionic setting between the traditional and the terror; a parody of scary movies adorned with fast-paced development. A cult work of the counterculture of an era and by extension of any era.
Non-stop laughter with those characters of Santiago Segura and the late Álex Angulo, accompanied by one of the most fascinating microcosms of characters brought from the deepest hells and the filthiest neighborhoods. Characters already sufficiently tormented by reality but now also marked by prophecies that transform them into guardians of hell.
Madrid formed as the synthesis of Sodom and Gomorrah. A city to be destroyed by a poor priest with fire and brimstone if necessary. Because in its rotten bed the creature expected by Satan himself to plunge the entire world into darkness will be born.
Good lysergic acid to delve into the adventure and the most syrupy Christmas environment to make it explode into a thousand pieces from the most ruthless and hurtful contrasts.
COMMUNITY
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:The horizontal property law will say what it wants. But what happens in the communities is abuzz with potential involuntary homicides or well-premeditated murders. Because someone needs to want to propose an improvement so that whoever does not want it considers whether to push it down the stairs when they coincide by lowering the garbage.
A fantastic hyperbole on the neighborhood communities. Álex de la Iglesia set his goal in this scenario of obligatory civic coexistence to end up demolishing everything with the most convincing complement: money. Because almost all the neighbors agree to keep the pasta in an unsuspected discovery in the apartment for sale of a recently deceased grandfather.
The saleswoman in question (great Carmen maura) they are promised very happy with the 300 million pesetillas that is in the filthy apartment that he should sell to fulfill his objectives in the real estate. Except that money also has its aroma for the hunting dogs that live within those community walls. And who else who least has a good jaw to launch into the jugular in search of the warm blood of their prey ...
The bar
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Claustrophobic like that Cabina de Antonio Mercero. Only here the matter is not a soliloquy but a choral song of sinister personalities. Something like those movies of characters locked in a house with a dead man on the table.
But of course, being Álex de la Iglesia who runs the show, the matter is duly rarefied to bring out the worst and worst (yes, the worst and worst) of each of its diverse characters. Nobody can leave that bar that has brought them there as only the most unsuspected centripetal forces can. Little by little the entanglement is sinking between the characters, blackening everything. Because all of them have this pending guilt, the reason that has led them there as sinners in the face of their last torture ...
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