Catalonia (Jul 2019)
Dérives dans le Raval
Abstract
The documentary by José Luis Guerin, Work in progress, opens and closes with two travellings. The first is an archive of 1959, filmed in 8 mm by Joan Colom, where we follow a sailor in the Barcelona Raval; the last is a sequence shot, built like a performance, that seems to seal the bonds woven during the shooting between the team and the young protagonists of this open epilogue. In between, in the center of the film, lays all the loneliness and misery of the left behind by a world eager for speculation, shown by the wandering of Antonio – the ancient sailor – in the ruins of the deserted Raval. These three drifts are the symptoms of an ill-being linked to the margin, but also a beautiful lesson of cinema.
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