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Jose C From a very specific premise (a documentary on the construction of a new building in Barcelona's "barrio chino") Guerin has produced a film that is surprisingly comprehensive and universal. A huge range of subjects and characters are present in the film (children, teenagers, homeless, the old, immigrants, drug addicts, prostitutes, etc) giving them an extraordinary metaphorical significance without departing from the documentary approach. Shot in static shots (except for the marvellous and hopeful final tracking shot) and edited from 120 hours of footage with Guerin's characteristic precision, rhythm and visual poetry. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/11/25 Full Review Audience Member Muy buen documental, muy diferente a lo que ví hasta el momento, buena sorpresa. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member En ese sentido, de las cerca de dos horas de duración, pude haber prescindido de 20 o 30 minutos menos. Ninguna de las personas son actores profesionales, y si bien hay presencias frescas e interesantes (los niños jugando en la construcción, los albañiles marroquíes), hay otras a las que Guerin les da demasiado espacio. La parte más interesante, es el hallazgo arqueológico durante la construcción de los cimientos. Ver a los curiosos rodear la escena y especular sobre de quienes podrían ser los esqueletos hallados, es también divertido. Unos dirán que son romanos, otros que son civiles caídos durante la guerra civil. Es un poco monótono ver casi todo el tiempo hombres derrumbando muros, así como escombros. Pero el logro de "En Construcción", como documental, es el gran contraste que establece entre los paisajes urbanos. El antiguo (la iglesia medieval que casi siempre está de fondo), el viejo (edificios descuidados y que parecen abandonados) y el nuevo, erigiéndose enfrente de las miradas de los vecinos, que parecen vulnerables a todo lo que sucede. Un fenómeno social, a final de cuentas. Más en pantallanueve.blogspot.com Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Mike M As a document, "En Construccion" proves two things: first, that wherever you go in the world, there will always be a quorum of old men (God's own Wikipedia) on hand to offer their tuppence worth; and second, that the busiest part of any city will always be the one square metre around a loaded skip. As cinema, we may see it as a European extension of the formal games played by Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf in Iran (and which would come to be taken up in the East on the construction sites of the films of Jia Zhang-ke), or a more concrete companion piece to Victor Erice's "The Quince Tree Sun", a study of a painter at work that was no less interested in how much one might do, or see, in a day. What Guerin's film resembles more than anything else, however - and in this, it can be considered a very early 21st century construction - is reality television, albeit of a form displaying far greater sophistication in its grasp of how stories can be mapped onto, or extrapolated from, existing realities... It's playful, yet compared to the mystery and romance of Guerin's later "In the City of Sylvia", still somewhat dry and theoretical; you can see why the Cahiers crowd voted it among the ten most significant films of the past decade. What it does achieve, however, is underline what "Sylvia" only suggested: that the attention Guerin pays to events at ground level makes most other filmmakers look truly blind. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/01/10 Full Review Audience Member A wonderful documentary on the construction of a new building in Barcelona's "barrio chino". It catches the best dialogs in the world. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member I sleep soundly whenever I *see* that people are alike everywhere. I love Jose Luis Guerin's cinema. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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