This is a film for all that is greater than myself. How can you see what I see art let's me exist in a trap concealed by beauty and commanded by love..the love of all I am and am not. A love affair doomed to end and start again. Now we can only see under the light.
Conversations between an artist and old friends. An artist and admirers. An artist and a tree...This is a film that reflects on art, life, the passage of time and what it is to inhabit a spirit and truth in artistic conception. There's a soft poetry to everything Erice does, an honesty and respect for his subjects that is infinitely rewarding if you take the time to appreciate his work.
An extraordinary Spanish film by a great film-maker about an amazing realist artist . . . the combination can't be better.
Es simplemente una joya, que no pasa por las constricciones de los géneros cinematicos. It is simply a gem. One that escapes the constraints of cinematic genres.
La vi de pequeño y no entendí nada. La vi de adolescente y me sedujo por completo. La volví a ver de adulto y no se me ha ido nunca de la cabeza.
part documentary, part dream like fiction, this film gets ride the heart of cinema itself within it's running time. it presents the faith that cinema holds in the value of time itself, as well as the compisitional similarities between the processes filmmakers and painters. interesting and engaging, a very impressive piece from erice.