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Squee! Alejandro Amenabar's Latest Offering Looks Promising...

The film stars Rachel Weiz who is from all accounts on top "The Constant Gardner" form as the star of this movie.

The movie is about Hypatia of Alexandria, a pagan philosopher, astronomer and mathematician who was tragically murdered by a Christian mob in the 5th Century AD. One interesting element is that Hypatia was not defined by gender or sexuality, being unusually accepted in the company of men and believed to have avoided sexual relationships (apparently she used her mentrual rags to illustrate that sexual desire is not beautiful).

I absolutely loved Alejandro Amenabar's previous movie "The Sea Inside" about Ramón Sampedro, a campaigner for the right to assisted suicide in Spain and the movie rightly received huge critical acclaim. Amenabar is also the director of "Open Your Eyes" which was adapted into the appalling English-speaking remake "Vanilla Sky" by the talentless hack Cameron Crowe. Before that he made a movie called "Tesis" about a film student considering to what extent violent media should be censored. You may also know about his film "The Others" starring Nicole Kidman. And here's the problem... By far the least impressive of his movies is the English-speaking movie "The Others". I get the impression that Amenabar is a far more capable director in his own language. Still this could be a lot of fuss over nothing. We'll see...

The president of the Religious Anti-Defamation Observatory, Antonio Alonso Marcos, has criticised the movie. (From what I can tell this organisation is pretty much the Spanish equivalent of Donohue's "Catholic League" organisation.) Marcos previously denounced the 'atheist bus campaign' as "illegal", so this is clearly a mild-mannered and even-tempered gentleman.... :p

Marcos comments are as follows:

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(Via MediaWatchWatch)