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The artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.The artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.The artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.
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Antonio López
- Self
- (as Antonio Lopez)
María Moreno
- Self
- (as Maria Moreno)
María López
- Self
- (as Maria Lopez)
Carmen López
- Self
- (as Carmen Lopez)
José Carretero
- Self
- (as Jose Carretero)
Julio López Hernández
- Self
- (as Julio Lopez Hernandez)
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Highly-regarded semi-documentary about an artist's efforts to paint a quince tree in his garden over several months. He sets up a plumb line and a horizontal wire as guides, puts nails in the mud against which to position his toes, paints a 'grid' of little marks on individual leaves all over the tree, and tries to meticulously capture every tiny detail in his picture. At one point he has an assistant holding a long pole to nudge a particular leaf into position. You are beginning to suspect that he is the world's most obsessive (and slowest) painter when, after an hour (about six weeks in real time), with the picture only half-way finished, he scraps the whole canvas during a rainstorm. Here the illusion of authenticity is destroyed: the rain is clearly artificial, hosed over the garden in ridiculously excessive swathes. What a disappointment. You suddenly realise the whole thing is a set-up and you watch much more cynically as he spends the next hour (another six weeks) on a pencil drawing of the tree. This is equally ineffectual, but it doesn't matter because you realise it's all been a metaphor, and a rather facile one: the effort to distill something essential from life in your advancing years before it is too late. The intention was clearly existential, to slow right down and reflect and absorb and try to grasp something of life's fading richness an original idea and very laudable, but unfortunately the images were not interesting enough, the sentiments not deep enough, and the execution not honest enough. Ceylan's "Clouds of May" attempted something similar much more successfully. It's art alright, but like the picture the artist creates, fairly weak art.
- federovsky
- Apr 29, 2008
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