Q&A: Alejandro Amenabar

May 17, 2009 The Chilean-born, Spanish-raised auteur burst onto the international scene with the surrealist gem "Abre Los Ojos" (a movie later remade by Cameron Crowe as "Vanilla Sky"). The director then pulled a 180 in 2004 with the bittersweet human drama "The Sea Inside," a tearjerker in which Javier Bardem starred as a terminally ill man who fought for his right to die -- and a film which won the foreign-language Oscar that year. Now he pushes deeper into new territory with "Agora," a big-budget story about astronomy, politics and a master-slave relationship in Roman Egypt.

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