José Luis Guerin Returns to San Sebastián With ‘Good Valley Stories,’ Stands Against ‘Impoverishing Cinema’ by Looking at Docs Solely as ‘Denunciation’
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The director of 'Under construction' returns after eight years without directing a feature film with a film that stands up as a defense of communal life in times of individualismLeiva conquers the Festival of San Sebastián: “Very few people come out of the fame” The jewel of the San Sebastián Film Festival arrived almost on the horn, and did so by the hand of the return of one of the great Spanish filmmakers of the last decades and who, however,…
José Luis Guerin Returns to San Sebastián With ‘Good Valley Stories,’ Stands Against ‘Impoverishing Cinema’ by Looking at Docs Solely as ‘Denunciation’
Goya-winning Spanish filmmaker José Luis Guerin is back in competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival with “Good Valley Stories” (“Historias del Buen Valle”), almost a quarter of a century after “Work in Progress” played at the Basque fest in 2001. The film takes place over three years in Valbona, a suburban district of Barcelona, […]
official section Director: Jose Luis Guerin. Countries: Spain - France. Running time: 122 minutes. The fascination of the community Cinema is not life, but a representation of life. Fidelity to life is almost impossible, the audience knows this, and makes an effort to build bridges between fiction and reality, and to believe what they are being told. In the documentary, although it may seem the opposite, the same thing happens, because even if t…
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