DVD Description
Winner of a host of international film awards including a Goya Award for Best Lead Actor (Eduard Fernández), and Best Film at the 2002 Fantasporto Festival, FAUSTO 5.0 is a contemporary reworking of the Faust myth as a psychosexual surrealist horror film. Directed by Álex Ollé, Isidro Ortiz and Carlos Padrisa (better known as members of La Fura Dels Baus, the controversial experiemental theatre group responsible for the notorious sexually explicit stage play "XXX"), the film stars Miguel Ángel Solá (Tango), Eduard Fernández (The Goalkeeper) and Najwa Nimri (Sex And Lucia).
Product Description
IF YOU WERE TO SELL YOUR SOUL, WHAT WOULD YOU ASK FOR? Brought to the screen by Barcelona's controversial theatre group La Fura Dels Baus, FAUSTO 5.0 is contemporary and highly imaginative reworking of the Faust myth In the tradition of ANGEL HEART and JACOB S LADDER. Dr. Fausto (the acclaimed Miguel Ángel Solá), a specialist in terminal medicine spends his entire life with patients on the brink of death. So wrapped up in his routinue and soulless work he has become a man without dreams. A man closer to death than life. Whilst attending a medical conference in the city, Dr. Fausto meets the mysterious Santos Vella (Eduard Fernández), a man who claims to have once been his patient. A patient who claims the Doctor had given up on him for dead eight years ago. Fausto has no memory of him. The charismatic Santos quickly becomes the Doctor's guide around the city, and he's a guide with magician's skills. He re-introduces the jaded doctor to life and real experience, and makes a bold pact with the Doctor to turn any of his desires into reality. Prepare for a fantastic and horrendous journey through a tunnel of dark emotions which will change Fausto forever. SOME DESIRES CAN BECOME NIGHTMARES. DVD EXTRAS: Making of Fausto 5.0, Spanish 5.1, Catalan 5.1, Spanish DTS, English 2.0, Theatrical Trailer, Image Gallery.
Special Features
Widescreen (1.85:1) Presentation Enhanced for Widescreen TVs Spanish 5.1 Spanish DTS Catalan 5.1 English 2.0 Optional English Subtitles Theatrical Trailer Newly Created UK Trailer Making Of Featurette Picture Gallery Biographies Trailers for other Nucleus Films Releases DVD 9 (dual layer) High Bit Rate Encode for Optimum Picture Quality
Empire
Refreshingly disrespectful of cinematic conventions
A superior Spanish genre film
...it conjures subversive moments of mordant wit and real dread
Sight & Sound
Fausto 5.0 has some authentically uncanny moments of body horror
Variety
From the Director
La Fura Dels Baus with Isidro Ortiz (Directors): La Fura dels Baus are best known for opening the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Miguel Ángel Solá (as Fausto): Has been acting in Spanish movies since 1973.
Eduard Fernández (as Santos Vella): Currently working on Alatriste, which stars Viggo Mortensen..
Najwa Nimri (as Julia): Starred in Open Your Eyes, The Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Before Night Falls and Sex and Lucia.
From the Back Cover
IF YOU WERE TO SELL YOUR SOUL, WHAT WOULD YOU ASK FOR?
Brought to the screen by Barcelona's controversial theatre group La Fura Dels Baus, FAUSTO 5.0 is contemporary and highly imaginative reworking of the Faust myth In the tradition of ANGEL HEART and JACOB’S LADDER.
Dr. Fausto (the acclaimed Miguel Ángel Solá), a specialist in terminal medicine spends his entire life with patients on the brink of death. So wrapped up in his routinue and soulless work he has become a man without dreams. A man closer to death than life.
Whilst attending a medical conference in the city, Dr. Fausto meets the mysterious Santos Vella (Eduard Fernández), a man who claims to have once been his patient. A patient who claims the Doctor had given up on him for dead eight years ago. Fausto has no memory of him.
The charismatic Santos quickly becomes the Doctor's guide around the city, and he's a guide with magician's skills. He re-introduces the jaded doctor to life and real experience, and makes a bold pact with the Doctor to turn any of his desires into reality.
Prepare for a fantastic and horrendous journey through a tunnel of dark emotions which will change Fausto forever.
SOME DESIRES CAN BECOME NIGHTMARES.
