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In the City of Sylvia (2007)
Directed by José Luis Guerin
I'm not sure why this film isn't talked about more. It's beautiful. A young man takes a trip to try and find a girl he had a brief moment with 6 years earlier. It has shades of Linklater's before / After trilogy but is also a little aloof in an arthouse type way like something from the French new wave.
There are about 5 lines of dialogue in the whole film, yet the sound design of bustling city cafe culture is thrust in the viewers ears, making it feel like you're peeping in on this people watching excursion. In that sense it feels like pure cinema.
In some ways it's a take on youthful exuberance / lost love / memories and the people that come and go at that stage of life. In other ways it's a mystery, and if you pay attention to detail there are possible ways to analyse the film as having a ray of hope right up until the end image.
8.9/10
Directed by José Luis Guerin
I'm not sure why this film isn't talked about more. It's beautiful. A young man takes a trip to try and find a girl he had a brief moment with 6 years earlier. It has shades of Linklater's before / After trilogy but is also a little aloof in an arthouse type way like something from the French new wave.
There are about 5 lines of dialogue in the whole film, yet the sound design of bustling city cafe culture is thrust in the viewers ears, making it feel like you're peeping in on this people watching excursion. In that sense it feels like pure cinema.
In some ways it's a take on youthful exuberance / lost love / memories and the people that come and go at that stage of life. In other ways it's a mystery, and if you pay attention to detail there are possible ways to analyse the film as having a ray of hope right up until the end image.
8.9/10