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José Luis Alcaine

José Luis Alcaine

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Biography

José Luis Alcaine Escaño (born 26 December 1938) is a Spanish cinematographer. Educated in Tangier, he was the first cinematographer to use a fluorescent tube as key lighting in the 1970s. He has worked on films such as Belle Époque (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1993), Two Much (1995), Blast from the Past (1999), and The Skin I Live In (2011). He won the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Volver, and has received five Goya Awards for best cinematography. In February 2019, he received the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Luis Alcaine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Skin I Live In
7.5

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

The Skin I Live In

2011
Blast from the Past
6.8

Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.

Blast from the Past

1999
The Tit and the Moon
6.3

A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.

The Tit and the Moon

1994
Volver
7.5

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

Volver

2006
Jamon Jamon
6.2

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.

Jamon Jamon

1992
Bad Education
7.4

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

Bad Education

2004
Parallel Mothers
6.8

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Parallel Mothers

2021
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
6.8

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had sex with and forces her into captivity, determined to make her part of his life.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

1990
Pain and Glory
7.4

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Pain and Glory

2019
Everybody Knows
6.5

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

Everybody Knows

2018
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
7.4

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

1988
My Life in Ruins
6.2

A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.

My Life in Ruins

2009
The Maidens' Conspiracy
4.1

Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.

The Maidens' Conspiracy

2006
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In the midst of the struggle between kings, emperors, sultans and popes, "Glow and Darkness" tells, as never before, the intertwined stories of characters such as Saladin, Emperor Barbarossa, Richard the Lionheart, Philip Augustus, Francis of Assisi and Eleanor of Aquitaine, among others. It is the time of the burghs, the fairs, the Provencal literature and the crusades. Everyone who lived at that time achieved fame and honor.

Glow and Darkness

2021
Belle Époque
6.7

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

Belle Époque

1992
Cuentos de Borges
9.0

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Cuentos de Borges

1993
Golden Balls
5.5

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

Golden Balls

1993
Passion
5.2

The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

Passion

2013
Stay as You Are
5.7

A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.

Stay as You Are

1978
Two Much
5.4

A struggling Miami art gallerist incurs the wrath of a mobster when he becomes accidentally engaged to his flighty ex-wife, but he falls in love with the woman's sister, so he invents a twin brother and plays both parts to satisfy the women.

Two Much

1995