Miguel Bardem

Miguel Bardem (* 1964 in Madrid ) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter .

Life

Miguel Bardem comes from a well-known Spanish family of actors. His father was the director Juan Antonio Bardem , his aunt is the actress Pilar Bardem . Their children Javier , Mónica and Carlos also work in the film business.

Like his father, Miguel Bardem chose the profession of director, he is also active as a screenwriter and actor. He often uses members of his family in his films. His aunt Pilar Bardem and his cousin Javier Bardem, among others, played the leading roles in his directorial debut La madre . His debut work was awarded the Goya for Best Fictional Short Film. After this short film, he made his first feature film together with Alfonso Albacete in 1996. In Más que amor, frenesí , Nancho Novo, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Ingrid Rubio, among others , play. Carlos Bardem , the youngest cousin of Miguel Bardem, made his acting debut under his direction. The style of the film is reminiscent of the work of Pedro Almodovar , according to a review in the New York Times . Más que amor, frenesí brought Miguel Bardem a nomination for Goya for Best Newcomer Director . For his next directorial work La mujer más fea del mundo , Bardem was able to win Elia Galera, Roberto Álvare and Héctor Alterio as actors. The comedy shows with a lot of black humor how the murder cases of several beauty queens are solved shortly before a miss election . The film won the Puchon International Film Festival award.

In 2003, Bardem took on the documentary Ninas de Hojalata produced by Canal Plus . The film follows the life of underage girls in Nepal , thousands of whom are sent to India every year and are forced into prostitution there.

With Incautos , Miguel Bardem brought another comedy to the screen in 2004. Ernesto Alterio, Victoria Abril and Federico Luppi starred for him in front of the camera. For the 50th anniversary of the comic heroes Clever & Smart , Bardem was commissioned to make an actual film. The film came out in 2008 under the title “Mortadelo y Filemón. Misión: Salvar la Tierra “(Clever & Smart - Mission: Save the World) in the cinemas. The roles in the agent film took on Alex O'Dogherty, Secun de la Rosa and Edu Soto.

Filmography

• 1995: La madre
• 1996: Not Love Just Frenzy (Más que amor, frenesí)
• 1999: The Ugliest Woman in the World La mujer más fea del mundo
• 2001: Night Of Kings (Noche de reyes)
• 2003: Tin Girls (Niñas de Hojalata)
• 2004: Swindled (Incautos)
• 2008: Clever & Smart - Mission: Save the World (Mortadelo y Filemón: Misión: salvar la Tierra)

Awards

• 1996 : Awarded the Goya in the category of best fictional short film for "La madre"
• 1997 : Nomination for the Goya as the best young director for "Más que amor, frenesí"
• 2000 : Nomination for the Goya as best young director for "La mujer más fea del mundo"
• 2000: Awarded the Puchon International Film Festival prize for “La mujer más fea del mundo”

Web links

• Miguel Bardem in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AbsoluteNow: Celebrity Birth Date by First Name. (No longer available online.) In: www.absolutenow.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012 ; accessed on September 22, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Movie Review - Not Love, Just Frenzy. In: The New York Times . Retrieved October 8, 2010 : "If Not Love, Just Frenzy were a Renaissance painting, it might be attributed to the school of Almodovar." 
3. ↑ The Ugliest Woman in the World. (No longer available online.) In: www.mjsimpson.co.uk. Archived from the original on October 10, 2010 ; accessed on October 8, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ TIN GIRLS Niñas de Hojalata. (No longer available online.) In: www.innterlens.com. Archived from the original on December 2, 2010 ; accessed on October 8, 2010 (English): “Every year in Nepal, some 12000 girls are sent to work in brothels all over India. Most of them are only 13 years old, […] “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ It's 'Happening' for Wahlberg and Shyamalan. In: www.ew.com. Retrieved October 8, 2010 (English): "[...] TV actor Eduard Soto will star as Mortadelo in Miguel Bardem's Mortadelo and Filemon, a movie adaptation of the Spanish comic book series Clever & Smart [...]" 
6. ^ Puchon International Film Festival. (No longer available online.) In: www.filmfestivals.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 2010 ; accessed on September 23, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.