Used to be banned from entering China because of his film Siete años en el Tíbet (1997). But years later, he was hired to direct the Chinese-French co-production El último lobo (2015) and had his ban lifted.
Enemigo a las puertas (2001) is a film about duels and duality,
about contrasts and extremes. The event is minuscule, but the
propaganda makes it extremely important. Two individuals track each
other in the midst of millions who are dying, but the focus is on these
two. The smallest part is only one little piece of the large canvas,
but it consequently becomes the central symbol of the whole.
