Results from cinema's inquire

With the inquiries we made to our classmates during these days we have seen that the most well-know actress is Penélope Cruz, the most well-known director is Pedro Almodóvar and the most well-known film is “ El Orfanato”

Penélope Cruz: She is the first Spanish actress to win the Oscar. She has also starred in several American films such as Blow, Vanilla Sky, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona She speaks four languages: Spanish, Italian, French and English

Pedro Almodóvar: He is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. Some of his most important films are Labyrinth of Passions (1982), All About My Mother (1999), Broken Embraces... He won 6 Goya ( 2 for the best director, 3 for the best film and one for the most original script) and 2 Oscars ( one for the most original script and the other for the best film where English doesn’t appear) along his career.

El Orfanato: It is an horror film from 2007 made by Juan Antonio Bayona ( this guy studied in our school).

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Spanish cinema

The first productions of Spanish cinema were in 1886 and the first Spanish film was “Salida de la misa de dode de la iglesia del Pilar de Zaragoza” and the director was Eduardo Jimeno Correas.

In Spain, we have got different types of cinema:

Historical: It explains the big adventures of the past and they are classified into different types (colonial, medieval ages and independence wars).

Bandit cinema: It describes the lives of the bandits and invaders in the XVIII century.

Classical cinema: It show us important images of literature.

Musical: This type of cinema is very popular in the world. This kind of films consists of telling a story with music. Here we can find a folklore cinema, zarzuela cinema…

Finally, in the Spanish cinema we can find terror films, comedy and romance films…Currently, if we compare the Spanish cinema with the films of Hollywood, our cinema has got a secondary position.