En la ciudad de Sylvia (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

José Luis Guerín

Guionista:

José Luis Guerín (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

14 septiembre 2007 (Spain)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier. |

Plot Keywords:

Pursuit | Sketching | Street

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Towards a new cinema?

Reparto

Pilar López de Ayala	...	Ella
Xavier Lafitte	...	Él
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Michaël Balerdi	...	Un passant
Laurence Cordier
Tanja Czichy	...	Tanja
Gladys Deussner	...	Woman reading a book
Eric Dietrich
Charlotte Dupont
Philippe Ohrel	...	The strange man

También conocida como:

In the City of Sylvia (Europe: English title) (festival title) (USA) (new title)

Duración:

Canada:84 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Francés | Español

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Ireland:G

Locaciones de Filmación:

Café du TNS-Théatre National de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

Compañía:

Château-Rouge Production

Banda de Sonido:

Gasn Nign

Towards a new cinema?

It is one of the most written about and blogged about films of the last few years.References abound,from Bresson to Hitchcock,Rohmer,Murnau,even Dante and Petrarch,but is it too slender to sustain such a formidable weight of cultural allusions? While it is undoubtedly true that it is reminiscent of many other films,there is something sufficiently fresh and different which makes it definitely stand out. The story could not be more simple.A dreamy looking young man waits alone in a café in Strasbourg scanning each female passer by in the hope that she may be Sylvia whom he met in the city six years ago.Eventually he sees someone who may be her and he begins to obsessively pursue her through a labyrinth of streets and alleyways.Yes, "Vertigo" is of course brought to mind and there is a wealth of allusions to the feminist theory of the controlling power of the male gaze.But there is more to it than that.The ditching of much narrative,characterisation and even dialogue give rise to a new form of cinema experience,a concentration on the purely sensuous aspect of cinema,an increased awareness of the power of everyday sights and sounds which cinema usually elides in favour of a forward thrusting narrative and a well-defined protagonist.