Wednesday 7 August 2013

En la ciudad de Sylvia

Almost devoid of  dialogue , the film tells about an artist who returns to a city in search of a woman he met six years earlier.   For three days ,  he sits at the cafe outside the Conservatoire sketching the people around him.   Eventually he finds a girl who looks like her and stalks her through the city.  Finally he works up the nerve to say hello  ; she claims not to be the one he seeks ; they part ways.   But in the hands of the director
Luis Guerin , this is enough to construct a frequently hypnotic,  if sometimes irritating,  meditation on the act of looking.  It's a profile of a city paradise , where we hear only sounds of footsteps and overheard, muffled conversations , but we are presented with a picture of extreme beauty and wonderment.  The film mainly explores the themes like desire ,beauty and silent interaction of society.  As an ostensibly subjective film ,it also includes  many mysterious scenes where the identity of the observer is ambiguous.  The director has captured  the obsessive and mysterious compulsiveness of yearning and the ways in which it can take over our consciousness.


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