The meanders of a quiet city in our eyes of ghosts numbers, eager to prove if one wants to bother. They appear as silhouettes uncertain sketched muted by the memories of a past too distant and confused ... "In the City of Sylvia," a film haunted by presences
In a city that does not know, a young man goes in search of a young woman, Sylvie he met some years before. Jose Luis Guerin, with "In the City of Sylvia" reveals a gem forms and ramifications are more complex than the apparent simplicity, the argument of the film would lead one to predict.
In a city that does not know, a young man goes in search of a young woman, Sylvie he met some years before. Jose Luis Guerin, with "In the City of Sylvia" reveals a gem forms and ramifications are more complex than the apparent simplicity, the argument of the film would lead one to predict.
A soft sensual languor and fleeting ...
First, what is striking is great sensuality that radiates "In the City of Sylvia." Jose Luis Guerin plunges us into a strange quietness and indolence, a strange feeling comes we collect and we rock at the edge of a world almost unreal ... A soft languor coats the characters ... As we .. This
sensuality, the feeling flush or almost every plan, long static shots give way to micro-events, an expression on a face, lock of hair brushed by the breeze, eyes that get lost, seek each other, absconding Passers ... nonchalant, immersed in their daily games of shadows and lights on bodies, faces, walls ... The streets in which the young man wanders seem bathed in that it also ideal ... torpor
packets recorded Guerin The world through the young man is the stealthy randomness ... passing, fleeting gestures, expressions, Enter the imperceptible ... Paradoxically, creates a curious sense of timelessness, of the freeze ... The cinema of Guerin; capture the transient, the fugitive makes it ... This timeless collection of very special time that is also found in "En construccion" is strengthened by the Specific treatment for ambient sounds, which appear and disappear like so many suspensions acting ... Snippets of conversations barely audible, very little dialogue, music emerge and disappear over the wandering in which we led this young man, frail skiff and delicate ... From the reminiscences Werthériennes romance, absolute idealism, he is clearly speaking in the film José Luis Guerin ... But not a romantic furious, packed, passionate, fiery, but a romance internalized ... Guerin transforms a mental universe.
Duplication
This double movement, this oscillation between transience and eternity is the heart of the film. Fugacity of a glance, a late night meeting in a bar, a feeling of eternity, eternity for a fresh perspective that haunts the memory forever.
The city becomes the game of love track mapping with landmarks, clues, traces are all places that impulses of the heart.
"Laura, I love you" phrase repeatedly chanted in this film, which emerges as a beautiful or handsome stranger, standing in a corner on a wall. Sentence lighthouse and compass of feeling and desire ...
"And he dragged me, ashamed and late, to review the beautiful eyes that I care so well for their forthcoming fâcheux.Je not live a little longer, as a glance from you on my power to be : and then I die, I want to yield to my desire. "Petrarch
Laure, Laure de Sade, this impossible love and remained chaste Petrarch ... This irreparable loss will Laure ... Or to the rest of his life, a vivid memory, familiar.
The windings of the city where the young man loses Sylvie, are somehow marked by that statement ... Statement distraught launched the world ... Sylvie splits into Laura, Nerval madness of the confusion of beings ... These
back these profiles, the faces that replace each other, these sets of reflections in the first sequence where the young man watching patiently appearance of Sylvia on the terrace of a cafe ... Is this it? Is this another? The young man knows exactly ...
Guerin plays fine for this confusion in his plans, just a face or hide another mask, they split ... The look despite the fixity of the plans mentioned above will know where ask ... This confusion is reinforced by the choice of making the main character, a cartoonist ... Indeed, the young man draws, faces, attitudes ... these drawings! Also in outline, never completed, also attempt to fix things, time, attempted in vain ...
Jose Luis Guerin plays into abyss, repetition of shots in the drawings ... It points here by repeating the search for a distant memory, a mental image erased. The design is the hallmark of uncertainty ...
Duplication also by the appearance of a few recurring characters, an African vendor on the fly, a flower vendor certainly Pakistani or Indian characters who populate the big cities ... Jose Luis Guerin, as in "En construccion" found by those figures full of humility of the people. They remind us of reality. As in a plane with this bag lady sitting in a corner by rolling a bottle. Later in the film plane, it will remain only empty bottles at the same place ... These characters crossed and recrossed also split the space and are also somewhat into the abyss ...
Call the desire
A flash ... then night! - Fleeting beauty
whose glance I was suddenly reborn,
Do I see you in eternity than
At a bandwidth Charles Baudelaire
This treasure hunt, this quest is also played on a reading of desire. There is this young woman, taken to Sylvie, a young man by the woman he will follow through the maze of streets and it will eventually ... Woman fantasy taken to address the image is taken in the confusion of memories and time past. Woman idealized by time.
Hypothesis: there would therefore "Laura" Petrarch, the "Sylvie" De Nerval, but is there not a shift to the "Laura" and "Sylvia" by Georges Bataille? Sylvia, wife of Georges Bataille and actress, tracks dot. The cafe where the young man is watching a drama center ... Laura, celebrated by Bataille, companion of debauchery members of the journal Acephale ... Laura, disruption of sense, loss ... A sequence in a bar night suggests this track and begins the announcement of the loss Bataille, "Laura, I love you" like to call the little death ... Laura as point-to-cons FIG ideal as chastity ... Laure call to get lost in the maze of desire and enjoyment ...
The beautiful sequence where the girl tram "Sylvie" and the young man speak is the culmination of the changeover between ideal and complexion. This one thinks he found one he seeks. Jose Luis Guerin isolates them from the world around them through the window of the tram. Using a shallow depth of field, it highlights their presence, detached from this world. Fixation in a world that is more than uncertain movement. There remains only the certainty of this meeting. Nothing more. This woman is not Sylvia but becomes Such a holy icon, a virginal figure ... Then came the sequence of the bar and the transition to the carnal act with another woman ...
film about the city, about the meeting, the aspirations, romantic wanderings, would it not a film about the initiatory journey of a young man? The portion of the ideal love of carnal pleasure?
Director: Jose Luis Guerin
Screenplay: Jose Luis Guerin
1st Assistant Director: Pol Rodriguez
Director of Photography: Natasha Braier
Editing: Nuria Esquerra
Producer: Chateau Rouge Production (France) - Eddie Saeta SA (Spain)
Duration: 84mn
Distributor Shellac
release on DVD March 22, 2010
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