Cabeza de perro

Doghead (Spanish: Cabeza de perro) is a 2006 Spanish drama film directed, written and scored by Santi Amodeo starring Juan José Ballesta and Adriana Ugarte.

Displaying a fable-like tone and an omniscient off-camera narrator,[1] the plot tracks the mishaps of Samuel, affected by a rare neurological condition and overprotected by his family.[2]

A Tesela Producciones Cinematográficas and La Zanfoña Producciones production,[8] the film had the participation of Canal Sur and Canal+.[3] Shooting took place in Seville, Costa del Sol and Madrid.[5][7]

Distributed by Alta Classics,[3] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 October 2006. The film also screened at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival held in June 2007.[9]

Jonathan Holland of Variety, deemed Doghead to be a "revitalizing, winsomely idiosyncratic" film, with the result of Amodeo's craft being "a visually striking, deceptively subtle item that revels in its unconventionality".[3]

Javier Ocaña of El País, considered that the film possesses "a very special magic and a strange poetry", blending in "a modern visualization and a script between the profound and the candorous".[1]