The Quince Tree Sun (Erice, 1992): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.25pm
This film, part of the Victor Erice season at BFI Southbank, is also being screened on March 28th. Full details can be found here.
Time Out review:
A truly magnificent film from the maker of Spirit of the Beehive and The South, which effortlessly transcends the term 'documentary'. Basically, it follows Madrileño painter Antonio López
as he meticulously and slowly labours over a painting of a quince tree
in his garden. That the task takes him months is of interest in itself,
but where the film scores is in its fleshing out of its subject through
conversation with friends, wife, admirers, and builders at work on his
house, a strategy that simultaneously contextualises López and puts his
bizarre, even limited conception of artistic endeavour into perspective.
Don't worry about a lengthy, fairly banal dialogue about half-an-hour
into the film; the rest is visually extraordinary, funny, touching, and
quite unlike anything else.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is an excerpt.
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