12-18 November 2018

En la ciudad de Sylvia (In the City of Sylvia)

Jose Luis Guerin

En la ciudad de Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
L'Alternativa Parallel / She Cuts / En la ciudad de Sylvia

Synopsis

A young artist comes to a city in search of a girl from his past and begins obsessively sketching her from memory, together with the women and girls that pass him by: a fleeting succession of female faces with great dramatic impact.

"Every once in a while the film captures a joyful and seldom encountered feeling: that cinema has indeed acquired its own voice and is speaking its own language, no longer indebted to any of the other art form." (Screen Daily)

Edited by Núria Esquerra, who has cut all of J.L. Guerin's films since En construcción (2001). This screening follows directly on from the talk The Secret Life of Images and Sounds, with Núria Esquerra.

Info

  • Country France, Spain
  • Year 2007
  • Format Digital
  • Running time 82 min
  • Image Colour
  • Language Spanish, French
  • Subtitles Catalan
  • Production company Chateau Rouge Productions, Eddie Saeta S.A.
  • Producer Gaelle Jones, Luis Miñarro
  • Screenplay Jose Luis Guerin
  • Photography Natasha Braier
  • Editor Núria Esquerra
  • Sound Amanda Villavieja
  • Actors Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Laurence Cordier, Tanja Czichy, Eric Dietrich, Charlotte Dupont

Programme

Wednesday 14, 21.30 h — Auditori CCCB

Presented by Núria Esquerra