The Sky Turns Reviews
Without relying on melodrama or nostalgia, Alvarez embraces the inescapable nature of impermanence.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Instead of expressing sorrow for a vanishing way of life, "The Sky Turns'' exudes a clear and weightless joy.
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| Original Score: 3/4
A fastidious tone poem, meticulously composed and deliberately paced.
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| Original Score: 3/5
New York Times
Top CriticA fastidious tone poem, meticulously composed and deliberately paced.
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| Original Score: 3/5
In the beautifully com posed documentary "The Sky Turns," filmmaker Mercedes Alvarez returns after 35 years to Aldealsenor, the remote Spanish village where she was born.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Nothing speaks more elegantly to the bewilderment of the locals than a long shot of newly built windmills lining a distant hilltop while a villager, made tiny by Álvarez's framing, looks on in the foreground, swallowed up by the forces of history.
