I still intend to see Volver as well as Pan’s Lab.

I think everyone (both in Spain and in the rest of Europe as well) will have to agree that American films are way better than both, Spanish and European films.
Of course in Spain and in Europe, sometimes we can produce a piece of good quality entertainment, but, come on, films have to be considered one of the greatests american inventions (disregarding the Lumiere brothers) and us, Europeans, are only lucky if only sometimes we can get close to them.

For instance, let’s have some recent examples, let’s take a look at last years Oscar nominees for best picture. If I rember correctly this films were : * Crash, * Brokeback Mountain, * Good Night and Good Luck, * Munich and * Capote. Some other masterpieces were left out, such as Woody Allen’s Match Point.

This was only last year’s example, but Americans give out such great films on a regular basis. Let’s face it. When have we, Europeans, been able to produce such an incredible amount of quality and passion on screen??

The label of American films being stupid commercial bores with happy endings is so wrong. Their industry is so big that they cover the whole spectrum, but when they do a good movie (which is quite often) they are unmatchable.

As to Spanish films, yes, sometimes we do interesting things, like ‘Volver’ (which I think shows no nudity, at least I don’t remember) or ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’ (Pan’s Labyrinth) which, by the way is Spanish, despite having a Mexican director (Guillermo del Toro). The cast, plot, story and production comes from Spain (in fact it has been produced by Spanish TV channel, Tele Cinco).