Who is Juan José Campanella? The film that raised him as one of the best film directors | LOS40

Juan José Campanella visits El Hormiguero this Wednesday, January 24, to present the second season of the series The Envoys with Miguel Ángel Silvestre.

The actor is the protagonist and has stressed on different occasions how happy it makes him to work alongside someone who for many is one of the best film directors of our time.

But what has Juan José Campanella done?

Born in Buenos Aires in 1959, the first films that made him famous were The Same Love, the Same Rain (1999), Luna de Avellaneda (2004) and the first one with which he was nominated for an Oscar: The Bride’s Son ( 2001), one of the most tender dramas of recent years.

But it was not until 2009 when he managed to win the Oscar for best foreign language film and the Goya with the spectacular El secreto de sus ojos.

All of them starring Ricardo Darín, which is why he has also created a universe of “Campanella boys and girls” of which many actors want to be part. Just as he leaves his touch in each of the productions.

Two priests from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Vatican team responsible for verifying and studying the miracles of potential saints, are sent to Mexico to verify supposed miraculous healings in a psychiatric institution by another cleric. Upon arriving in Mexico City they receive the news that the priest has disappeared.

Their lives and faith are put to the test when they discover a psychiatric colony located on the outskirts that seems to hide more than one secret: a mystery buried for decades that involves all the town’s inhabitants.