Icíar Bollaín

Icíar Bollaín

Born: June 12, 1967
in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born June 12, 1967; Madrid) is a Spanish actress, director and writer.

Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films.

Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you alone? in English) (1995) was her first feature film as director, a story about two young girls who dream of finding an earthly paradise, and undertake a long trip towards the sea. Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from another world in English) (1999) was her second feature film, which she co-wrote with Julio Llamazares. It is the story of four women who travel to rural Spain with the hopes of finding love. Her latest film as writer and director is Te Doy Mis Ojos (I'll give you my eyes in English) (2003) which won seven Goya awards including Best Film. The movie is about the abusive marriage relationship between Pilar and Antonio. Her 2010 film Even the Rain was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In January 2011, the film made the final nine shortlist.

Movies for Icíar Bollaín...

The Critic
Title: The Critic
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Carlos Boyero is one of Spanish cinema's most followed and feared figures. Controversy has hounded him since he published his first article more than forty years ago, and he has remained in the eye of the hurricane ever since. Is he the last representative of a disappearing time? Has social media put an end to the traditional influence of the critics. Taking the background and personality of this very controversial figure as its basis, El crítico / The Critic will also endeavour to reflect on the enormous changes taking place in Spain in the field of film criticism.
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Marimar Torres
Released: August 12, 2009
Type: Movie
A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.
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The Night of the Brother
Title: The Night of the Brother
Character: Julia
Released: August 26, 2005
Type: Movie
The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less astonishing than the way they are shown to us.
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The Stone Raft
Title: The Stone Raft
Character: Maria
Released: September 19, 2002
Type: Movie
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
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They're Watching Us
Title: They're Watching Us
Character: Julia
Released: September 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case previously now resides in a mental institution and is unable to say anything other than, "They're watching us." A priest (Roberto Alvarez) explains how a series of disappearances in the area have supernatural underpinnings. As Juan is absorbed deeper and deeper into the case, his mother is concerned for him.
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Rosa
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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Leo
Title: Leo
Character: Leo
Released: September 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past.
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Title: No sé bailar
Released: July 3, 1999
Type: TV
It is a surrealist comedy where reality and fantasy are mixed, it tells in a humorous tone the daily life and dreams of a 40-year-old film buff, played by Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.
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Subjúdice
Title: Subjúdice
Character: Paula
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
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Niño nadie
Title: Niño nadie
Character: Asun
Released: April 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
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Menos que cero
Title: Menos que cero
Character: Amaya
Released: November 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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Hi, Are You Alone?
Title: Hi, Are You Alone?
Character: Cantante en karaoke
Released: October 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
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Land and Freedom
Title: Land and Freedom
Character: Maite
Released: April 7, 1995
Type: Movie
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
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Tocando fondo
Title: Tocando fondo
Character: Araceli
Released: August 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of ​​learning the trade.
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Dime una mentira
Title: Dime una mentira
Character: María
Released: April 16, 1993
Type: Movie
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Baja corazón
Title: Baja corazón
Released: September 28, 1992
Type: Movie
A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend...
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Sublet
Title: Sublet
Character: Laura
Released: September 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Laura is a young woman from Madrid who lives in the most degraded area of ​​New York. There he lives a series of anecdotes that make up his day-to-day life in the United States
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Un paraguas para tres
Title: Un paraguas para tres
Released: April 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Having just split up with their respective partners, Maria and Daniel meet in a shop where they argue over a bed. From then on, they keep running into each other in all sorts of strange places and in all sorts of circumstances. They are mutually attracted and begin to intrepret the coincidences of their meeting as sign of fate, but they are hesitant to take the plunge. This little game of love and fate becomes even more complicated when Pierre, a French teacher, and Alicia, Maria's friend, become involved..Who will seduce whom?...Who will be seduced by whom?...After a series of misunderstandings, love settles the question.
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Doblones de a ocho
Title: Doblones de a ocho
Character: Anita
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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El Mejor de los Tiempos
Title: El Mejor de los Tiempos
Released: January 21, 1989
Type: Movie
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Malaventura
Title: Malaventura
Character: Rocío
Released: October 6, 1988
Type: Movie
An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville.
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Al acecho
Title: Al acecho
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
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Mientras haya luz
Title: Mientras haya luz
Character: María
Released: September 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist, Jaime, is chased by a mysterious jeep. In the course of the chase, he takes shelter in a small motel. When he settles down, he keeps writing in his personal diary, reflecting his impressions about his work in it.
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Las dos orillas
Title: Las dos orillas
Character: Icíar
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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El Sur
Title: El Sur
Character: Estrella - 15 años
Released: May 18, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.