In Spanish writer-director Alejandro Amenabar's movies, life is a slippery thing. Reality evaporated into a dreamy blur in Amenabar's 1997 "Open Your Eyes" (remade in Hollywood as "Vanilla Sky"), and ...

"The Sea Inside" opens with an invitation, spoken softly by a female, disembodied voice, to relax; to imagine a movie screen and to project upon it "your favorite place." In this case, a beach. We ...

Bardem is an undeniably fine actor; it takes one to command the screen with only one’s head. His character’s plight is moving, but the film’s title misleads. If there is a sea of wisdom, or ...