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Dream of Light
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Wikipedia article
'Dream of Light' (, lit. "The Sun of the Quince"), also known as 'The Quince Tree Sun', is a 1992 Spanish narrative/documentary film directed by Victor Erice. The film centers on Spanish painter Antonio Lpez Garca and his attempt to paint the eponymous quince tree. Lpez struggles to capture a perfect, fleeting moment of beauty on canvas, and the film meticulously chronicles his work.
Synopsis
The film begins by showing Antonio Lpez Garca as a very meticulous painter. He drives in pegs to mark his stance, hangs a weight and uses strings to determine the symmetry and center of his painting. His first attempt starts out peacefully but he soon encounters problems due to the weather and the size of his canvas. As Lpez and a friend discuss Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgement', painted when Michelangelo was in his 60s, which Lpez is fast approaching, the film's subject takes shape as the relationship between the artist's work and his own mortality. Lpez's future attempts are much more rushed and frantic as he struggles to compete with the weather, the fleeting sun and the rotting and weighed down fruit in maintaining his vision.
Participants
*Antonio Lpez Garca
*Mara Moreno
*Enrique Gran
*Mara Lpez
*Carmen Lpez
*Elisa Ruiz
*Jos Carretero
*Amalia Aria
*Lucio Muoz
*Esperanza Parada
*Julio Lpez Hernndez
*Fan Xiao Ming
*Yan Sheng Dong
*Janusz Pietrzkiak
*Marek Domagala
Reception
Janet Maslin wrote that "the purity and breadth of this meticulous study are all the more gratifying in view of its unprepossessing style."
Awards
At the 1992 Cannes Film Festival the film won the Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize.
References
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