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Fantastic presentation of the great gaudi's work and catalunya. To be able to see all of this art in one's life is special and for that alone this is a great film. The pensive perspectives and music certainly add to the minimal dialogue, but it is so well made it certainly is not missing.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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El director Hiroshi Teshigahara logra capturar la esencia de Gaudí usando sólo imágenes de su arquitectura. La camara nos transporta a Barcelona y nos deja entrar a estas estructuras magnificas que realmente parecen fuera de este mundo y desafiar la gravedad. Toma su tiempo en mostrar las principales y poco a poco muestra todo el espectro y los detalles de ella que en circunstancias normales son inaccesibles para el ojo humano.
Este no es u documental para todo el mundo, y aunque puedo apreciar la dedicación y la originalidad de mostrar de esta manera el trabajo de Gaudí, ansiaba un poco de contexto. Si, la arquitectura es hermosa y son productos de una mente prodigiosa, pero realmente me hubiera gustado saber como funcionaba la mente de este genio y de donde nació su amor a la naturaleza, que fue su obvia inspiración detrás de sus obras. Tengo que admitir que aunque me encontraba escéptica al ver 1 hora de puras imágenes, parte se disipó, ya que resultó ser hipnótico a momentos y la música ayudó a realzar todo el trabajo.
Al final quedé decepcionada, y mientras entiendo cual era la intención del director, más información y opiniones hubieran sido bien recibidas, y no siento que le hubiera quitado calidad al trabajo, ya que estéticamente fue satisfactorio, pero le faltó la parte intelectual.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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Antonio Gaudí (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1985)
I only know who Antonio Gaudí is thanks to a mix-up at my local library. I can no longer remember what I was supposed to be picking up, but it was not a book about modern architecture. That said, when the library hands me something, even as a mistake, I usually read it, and so I ended up finding out some things about the architect. Put him together with the guy who directed Face of Another and I'm game. Of course, this being Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudí is in no way your typical documentary, and that is much to the film's credit. In fact (spoiler alert!), by the time I was done watching it, it had become my favorite Teshigahara film.
There is a minimum of the stuff one expects to find in a documentary. Instead, Teshigahara focuses on Gaudí's designs, giving us beautiful shots of buildings, sweeping panoramas followed by minuscule close-ups, focusing not only on the big, flashy buildings, but taking us to a park, a garden, a crypt, you name it. There's a real sense of breadth here, and Teshigahara captures it beautifully.
I'm not entirely sure what else to say about the movie, as is evidenced (not like you could know this, but still) by the fact that I have scheduled this review to be posted on January 7, 2014, and I am still sitting here looking for a closing paragraph on the night of January 5. Everything I come up with to stick here is just a retread of what I said in the first two paragraphs, mostly about how ridiculously beautiful the thing is and how well it was shot. So I will just give up trying and tell you that if you don't have a Hulu Plus subscription to be able to access the Criterion Collection on demand, this movie alone would be worth the subscription fee. Having access to so much of the rest of the collection is just icing on the cake. ****
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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More an avant-garde auditory film than an innovative one, it suffers from (1) the similarity of its subject's work as captured photographically and (2) its lack of visionary direction. It seems this work is more one of infatuation than insight, and the filmmaker's infatuation isn't unequivocally ours -- at least not for over 90 minutes.
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01/15/23
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good doc about an amazing sculptor.
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01/21/23
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Antonio Gaudi's architecture is fascinating in its lack of straight lines and its fantastical nature. I appreciated the lack of words in this video poem but I wish the name of the locations had been present to give each place some context and allow for further research.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/10/23
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