The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Spain/France Feature Film Original Title: En la ciudad de Sylvia Writer/Director: José Luis Guerín Cinematographer: Natasha Braier Cast: Xavier Lafitte, Pilar López de Ayala Plotless and near enough dialogue free, Guerín’s remarkably sensual film - in which a handsome young man returns to Strasbourg in search of a woman, Sylvia, who he had a brief encounter with six...
Filmjourney.org (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art–the largest art museum in the western United States–announced yesterday that it will be shutting down its roughly 40-year-old film program this fall. Along with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the much more eclectic Cinefamily and REDCAT theaters, LACMA is one of the few venues in [...]
T O O G (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
I'm in love with Luis Minarro's choices ; he's the producer of Albert Serra, José Luis Guérin, Marc Rocha, Christophe Farnarier. Farnarier shot his first film just by himself, with a small Panasonic caméra. He followed an old catalan sheperd during his last transhumance and it's a beautiful film. There is one scene which has a mystical resonance. When I spoke with Farnarier after...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 23/06/2009
DVD Video Review: José Luis Guerín's enthralling enigmatic feature takes cinema to places it rarely goes (and I don't just mean Strasbourg). Noel Megahey reviews Axiom's DVD release.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 19/06/2009
News: Axiom Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of In the City of Sylvia on 22nd June 2009 priced at £19.99 RRP. Spanish director, José Luis Guerín presents the deceptively simple tale of a man seeking the woman he met six years before. With o...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
To catch the latest film exports, might have to turn to the Web.
Boston Review (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
BR 's film reviewer Alan Stone defends Jose Luis Guerin's beautiful, mostly silent film from its feminist critics. Rather than objectifying women, In the City of Silvia's protagonist worships his own ideal.
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 26/05/2009
Many acclaimed non-English movies never make it to the big screen in the US.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
IN WHAT must be a record, four of this week’s new releases are documentaries. could qualify as a fifth given that, on one level, it is formed as an observational picture of Strasbourg.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 26/03/2009
If Spanish director Jose Luis Guerin’s film carried a dedication, it would be to cinema, music, and attractive women.
Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 15/03/2009
Voltaire wrote that madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. The latter can be applied to Él, in the film In The City of Sylvia, who is searching for the woman he briefly met 6 years previously. We are invited to follow him in his [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/03/2009
The rest of the week's new releases: In The City of Sylvia Wonderful Town Hush
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/03/2009
For the first half-hour or so, the action consists almost entirely of a pretty young man sitting outside a café in Strasbourg sketching pretty young women; and you'd be surprised how easy it is to go along with that.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 13/03/2009
*** (PG) DIRECTED BY: JOSÉ LUIS GUERÍN STARRING: XAVIER LAFITTE, PILAR LÓPEZ DE AYALA
The Oxford Times | Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/03/2009
Reviews of Wendy and Lucy, Flame & Citron and Reverb
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