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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.
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Director
Víctor Erice
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With
Antonio López, María Moreno, Enrique Gran
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Spain 1992. 134min
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Digital 4K
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Certificate
U
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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.
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