Maria bennetts reallife counterpart, maria belon, has a story credit on this. Tsunami survivors impossible story hits the big screen bbc news. Bayonas the impossible aims to tell one familys story of struggle and. The impossible is beautifully accurate, writes tsunami. The film, the first movie dramatisation of the disaster, is tipped for oscar success. Maria belon is a spanish physician and motivational speaker, known for surviving the 2004 indian ocean earthquake and tsunami when she was on vacation in thailand with her husband enrique alvarez and three sons lucas, simon and tomas alvarez. I could see in the story of that family the basis for a kind of disaster movie, says bayona, a compact, dapper 37 yearold. An account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. Creating a wholly true true story is impossible, but juan antonio. Its excruciating to imagine a family being violently separated during a cataclysmic event, and almost as difficult to fathom how they could find their way back together. All i could see was water and two of my boys clinging to the tops of trees.
His familys survival story inspired the 2012 film the impossible. Nothing is impossible for maria belon front row features. By angela dawson front row features hollywoodmaria belon is more than just a tsunami survivor. Spanishborn tomas alvarez belons life changed forever on 26 december. His family s survival story inspired the 2012 film the impossible, starring naomi. For belon, making the film was more than just a glamorous silver. Kentborn naomi watts plays maria and ewan mcgregor is her. Bayona goes to great lengths to depict the harsh reality of. The screenplay isnt quite as powerful as the direction or the acting, but with such an astonishing reallife story at its center, the impossible is never less than compelling. Moments later the belonalvarez family was swept apart by the torrential force of the indian ocean tsunami of 2004. Lucas, who is now 18 and studying medicine at university college london, is played by rising british actor tom holland, 16.
She was severely injured in the tsunami and nearly died. Creating a wholly true true story is impossible, but juan antonio bayonas. Before the audience of emba alumni and their families, gathered on the. The impossible, a film based on the true story of one family who were. The impossible movie trailer popsugar entertainment. She has stated that some of her family is from the canary islands.
Based on a reallife story, this gutwrenching film tells the tale of how one family survived the 2004 tsunami while on. This is how maria belon, the reallife heroine of the 2012 film the impossible, began her talk at ieses recent. It would take five years, but finally, they have brought the familys story to the screen. An impossible life is an honest, raw, heartbreaking, inspiring, triumphant, complex, and unvarnished look at mental illness and how it affects the entire family. The impossible real life tsunami survivor maria belon interview. As the movie opens, maria naomi watts and henry ewan mcgregor, an english couple living in japan, are flying to thailand with their three sons for a. Film based on real family who survived the tsunami. Maria belon born may 12, 1966 is a spanish physician and motivational speaker, known for.
Tomas, now 20, was on holiday in thailand with his parents and his brothers lucas and simon when the wave hit. Belon now travels around the world as an advocate for survivors of the. Tsunami drama the impossible is improbably powerful. She was portrayed in the 2012 film the impossible by naomi watts, who received a best actress academy award nomination for her performance. The cast includes naomi watts, ewan mcgregor and tom holland. Aside from clint eastwoods underpowered hereafter, the legacy of 2004s boxing day. Those are the questions the impossiblea movie based on a real familys impossible struggles during the devastating indian ocean tsunami of 2004asks and answers. The impossible submerges the true impact of the tsunami film the. Its being untouchable, its believing that none of this is real. This month, the sixth entry of the mission impossible series, mission impossible. Actress naomi watts, left, portrays maria belon in the impossible. We meet the family behind tsunami movie the impossible. She is a woman who has experienced a horrific tragedy and lived to tell the tale.
The impossible is a disaster movie much, much better than the usual. The impossible, with naomi watts and ewan mcgregor the. Naomi watts discusses the real life inspiration for the impossible. Belon family in the production and consulting reallife survivors and. Naomi watts and ewan mcgregor star in the impossible, a film based on the true story of one family who were caught in the deadly boxing. The impossible 2012 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Antonio bayonas the impossible aims to tell one familys story of struggle. Kentborn naomi watts plays maria and ewan mcgregor is her husband. This is the real family who is reflected in the film the impossible here with the main actors.
Her story is the subject of juan antonio bayonas the. Were here to ferret out those absolute truths and the stretches presented in the impossible. The reallife belon family maria, enrique and their three sons lucas, tomas and simon are spanish, but onscreen they are portrayed by british actors naomi watts, ewan mcgregor, tom. The real family on whose experiences the film is based is spanish. She was portrayed in the 2012 film the impossible by naomi watts with the name. His familys survival story inspired the 2012 film the impossible, starring naomi watts and ewan mcgregor. The impossible is based on a true story in the lives of a reallife spanish family.
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