With a cinema of Spain viewing challenge taking place on ICM, I decided to dig into my piles of unplayed DVDs,to find movies from the country, Despite importing the disc (with English subtitles) from Spain years ago,it has somehow kept being left at the back,until I today decided to at last go on the voyage.
View on the film:
Taking the novel he wrote on the voyage, writer/director Fernando Fernan Gomez brings a detailed novelistic, Neo- Realist attention to detail in the screenplay, with the decades spanning of Carlos Galvan's family on the road trying to make a break in show-business being heavily felt in the character sketches Gomez draws, of each family member confronting the stark poverty in the country, presenting little chance of their voyage every reaching stardom.
Originally working on stage, Gomez brings his knowledge of that world into the folk Comedy of the family, who Gomez has chewing on cinema with a sharp dismissive view on cinema not having the purity of the theatre.
Jumping into various eras of the family between a interview where Carlos Galvan (played by a outstanding Joseph Sacristan,who wears the decades of Galvan's life on his face) is looking back on his life, Gomez gradually weaves the Neo- Realism hardship the family face with sparkling flight of fantasy, tearing up the censorship General Franco had placed on the arts thanks to Galvan's dreams of making it to the top, on the voyage to nowhere.
View on the film:
Taking the novel he wrote on the voyage, writer/director Fernando Fernan Gomez brings a detailed novelistic, Neo- Realist attention to detail in the screenplay, with the decades spanning of Carlos Galvan's family on the road trying to make a break in show-business being heavily felt in the character sketches Gomez draws, of each family member confronting the stark poverty in the country, presenting little chance of their voyage every reaching stardom.
Originally working on stage, Gomez brings his knowledge of that world into the folk Comedy of the family, who Gomez has chewing on cinema with a sharp dismissive view on cinema not having the purity of the theatre.
Jumping into various eras of the family between a interview where Carlos Galvan (played by a outstanding Joseph Sacristan,who wears the decades of Galvan's life on his face) is looking back on his life, Gomez gradually weaves the Neo- Realism hardship the family face with sparkling flight of fantasy, tearing up the censorship General Franco had placed on the arts thanks to Galvan's dreams of making it to the top, on the voyage to nowhere.