Altamira (film)
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| Directed by | Hugh Hudson |
| Produced by | Lucrecia Botin Álvaro Longoria Andy Paterson |
| Screenplay by | José Luis López-Linares Olivia Hetreed |
| Starring |
Antonio Banderas Golshifteh Farahani Allegra Allen Clement Sibony Rupert Everett |
| Music by | Mark Knopfler, Evelyn Glennie |
| Cinematography | José Luis Alcaine |
| Edited by | Pia Di Ciaula |
| Distributed by | Eagle Films Samuel Goldwyn Films |
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Release date
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1 April 2016 (Spain) |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | English / Spanish |
Finding Altamira (released as Altamira in Spain) is a 2016 Spanish biographical drama film starring Antonio Banderas, and directed by Hugh Hudson. It is Hudson's first fiction film since I Dreamed of Africa in 2000.
The film chronicles the groundbreaking discovery of stone age cave paintings in the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, and the subsequent controversy by leading religious and scientific figures of the day.
The music was composed by guitarist Mark Knopfler and percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
It has a score of 57% on Metacritic.
Johnathan Holland of The Hollywood Reporter declared the film, "Picturesque, but routine", and said that, "little of the wow factor is felt on a first viewing of the Antonio Banderas-starring, Hugh Hudson-directed Finding Altamira, where events which played a footnote role in Darwin's great scientific revolution are reduced to a good-looking but unimaginative period drama in which everything proceeds exactly as expected".
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