Dream and Silence

Sueño y silencio

Spain, France

2012

111 Min

Color, Black and White

2.35:1

Spanish, French, Catalan, English

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Jaime Rosales, Jérôme Dopffer, José María Morales

SCR Jaime Rosales, Enric Rufas

CAST Oriol Roselló, Yolanda Galocha, Alba Ros, Celia Correas, Jaume Terradas, Laura Latorre

SOUND Eva Valiño

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), London (Experimenta), CPH PIX (Front Runners)

Synopsis

Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. Oriol is an architect and Yolanda is a teacher. During a holiday at the Ebro River Delta they have an accident that changes their lives. —Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

Director

Jaime Rosales

Jaime Rosales (Barcelona, 1970) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.

He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, (Australia).

He did several successful short films before his long film debut with Las horas del día that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival. In 2007 filmed his second film, La soledad.

His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujiro Ozu, he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots. He won the Goya Award for Best Director for La soledad, film that received the Goya for Best Film too.

His upcoming film Dream and Silence has been selected to be screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia