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Daniel Monzón
After working as a film critic, screenwriter and radio show host, Daniel Monzón (Palma de Mallorca, 1968) made his directorial debut with The Heart of the Warrior, which won numerous awards, including at the European Fantastic Film Festival of Amsterdam (Silver Méličs), the Montreal Fantastic Film Festival (Best International Film), Fantasporto (Best Special Effects) and the Beijing Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize). The film also picked up two Goya nominations in 2001. He went on to write and direct The Biggest Robbery Never Told, a combination action film/satire. The Kovak Box, co-written with Jorge Guerricaechevarría and starring Timothy Hutton, won the Audience Award at the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden.
More than a genre film, Cell 211 is definitely a tragedy in the most classical sense of the word. It is a tragedy that any of us would experience if we had to confront the extreme situation Juan Oliver finds himself involved in. It is a story about fate, about “that which is inexorable and unrelenting,” about how “turning one particular corner rather than another” can change your life forever. And yet, at the core of Cell 211 are the bonds of friendship that develop between Juan and Malamadre under an extreme set of circumstances. The two men, whose respective lives couldn’t be more dissimilar, are brought together in a matter of hours by a twist of fate. And it hits them like a sledgehammer. Juan discovers that being on one side or the other has less to do with a mere set of circumstances than with being free to make a moral choice. He also finds out that everything is relative. The fact that one has committed murder is not incompatible with integrity or honesty, and being as a law-enforcing officer is not incompatible with being a real son of a bitch.
Daniel Monzón
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