Doghead (film)

Doghead (Cabeza de perro) is a 2006 Spanish drama film directed, written and scored by Santi Amodeo starring Juan José Ballesta and Adriana Ugarte.

Plot
Displaying a fable-like tone and an omniscient off-camera narrator, the plot tracks the mishaps of Samuel, affected by a rare neurological condition and overprotected by his family.

Production
A Tesela Producciones Cinematográficas and La Zanfoña Producciones production, the film had the participation of Canal Sur and Canal+. Shooting took place in Seville, Costa del Sol and Madrid.

Released
Distributed by Alta Classics, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 October 2006. The film also screened at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival held in June 2007.

Reception
Jonathan Holland of Variety, deemed Doghead to be a "revitalizing, winsomely idiosyncratic" film, with the result of Amodeo's craft being "a visually striking, deceptively subtle item that revels in its unconventionality".

Javier Ocaña of El País, considered that the film possesses "a very special magic and a strange poetry", blending in "a modern visualization and a script between the profound and the candorous".

Accolades

 * align = "center" rowspan = "2" | 2007 || 21st Goya Awards || Best New Actress || Adriana Ugarte || Nominated || align = "center" |
 * 10th Shanghai International Film Festival || Best Actor || Juan José Ballesta || Won || align = "center"|
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 * 10th Shanghai International Film Festival || Best Actor || Juan José Ballesta || Won || align = "center"|
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