The Quince Tree Sun

El sol de membrillo

Víctor Erice’s magnificent portrait of perfectionist painter Antonio López at work in his garden is a wise and witty meditation on art, cinema and time’s passing.

  • Director

    Víctor Erice

  • With

    Antonio López, María Moreno, Enrique Gran

  • Spain 1992. 134min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    U

  • English subtitles

A portrait of the celebrated artist Antonio López, mainly at work slowly painting a quince tree in his Madrid garden, but also enjoying encounters with friends, family and others. Funny, touching, insightful and inventive, this magnificent film transcends conventional notions of ‘documentary’, succeeding as a meditation on time, change, reality and its representation – and, perhaps, as a reflection on Erice’s own tendencies as a perfectionist artist.

FilmoTeca Generalitat de Catalunya