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Dream of Light (1990)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:7
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.5/10
Synopsis: From the Victor Erice, director of SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, comes an intensely detailed study of a painter in the midsts of an artistic creation as contemporary Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia... From the Victor Erice, director of SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, comes an intensely detailed study of a painter in the midsts of an artistic creation as contemporary Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia creates a still life of a quince tree while the sun filters through the leaves. Winner of the 1992 Cannes Film Festival International Critics Prize and the Grand Prize of the Jury Fipresci Award. [More]
Starring: Antonio Lopez Garcia
Starring: Antonio Lopez Garcia
Director: Victor Erice
Director: Victor Erice
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Reviews for Dream of Light
The Cinematheque Ontario's international panel voted it the best film of the 1990s, which can only lead me to question what they were smoking at the time.
Any summary of Spanish director Victor Erice's captivating documentary would sound more like a warning than the enthusiastic recommendation it merits.
In its own minimalist way it becomes a thoughtful, delicate inquiry into the essence of the artistic process, and a tribute to the beauty and mutability of nature. Mr. Erice's film is much bigger than it may appear to be.
A beguiling Spanish film about the creative process and the transitoriness of the natural world.
Whether it's a documentary or not, the sheer dumbness of the way this movie was put together is alone enough to drag it down.
More analytical than contemplative, never less than straightforward, Dream of Light makes no showy bid for the sublime.
The very act of creation speaks for itself in this amazing portrait of middle-age Spanish artist Antonio Lopez.
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