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Actors: Antonio López García, Marina Moreno, Enrique Gran, María López, Carmen López, See more

Directors: Víctor Erice

Format: Color, Dubbed, Subtitled, NTSC

Number of discs: 1

Studio: Facets

DVD Release Date: September 5, 2000

Run Time: 127 minutes

Average Customer Review:

based on 4 reviews. (.)

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From the Back Cover
Dream of Light "manages to achieve a mesmerizing intensity. The purity and br eadth... are all the more gratifying in view of its unprepossessing style. It becomes a thought ful delicate inquiry into the essence of the artistic process and a tribute to the beauty and m utability of nature." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times. "One of the most intriguing fi gures in the cinema." - Georgia Brown, The Village Voice.
In Dream of Light, t he celebrated director of "The Spirit of the Beehive," Victor Erice, achieves the miraculous; a direct look into how an artist creates. Antonio Lopez Garcia is Spain's leading painter who, f or several weeks one autumn, tries to paint the sun filtering through the leaves of a quince tr ee. Erice documents this process. His observations are "elegantly restrained, at once matter-of -fact and lyrically evocative." Erice, who has made only three films in 30 years, creates a kin d of diary, a journal of an artist's work and life, and a film about creation and life itself. The film is both comical and poetic; a remarkable, beautiful journey full of nuance - it is as if the person watching the film were given the privilege of watching God create the world.
Dream of Light (Quiince Tree of the Sun). El Sol del Membrillo. A film by Victor Erice, inspired by the painter Antonio Lopez Garcia. With the presence of Antonio Lopez, Maria Moreno, Enrique Gran. Produced by Maria Moreno in collaboration with the Instituto de la Cinematografi a y de las Artes Audiovisuales. A Rosebud Films, S.L. release.

Product Description
In Dream of Light, the celebrated director of The Spirit of the Beehive, Victor Erice, achieves the miraculous: a direct look into how an artist creates.

Reader Reviews
Victor Erice's El Sol Del Membrillo is without a doubt one of the most mind-numbingly arid films I've had the displeasure of experiencing. It seemed to be created with one purpose in mind: to make art so completely monotonous that it sucks every last trace of enjoyment out of it and discourages anyone who watches it from ever considering art as either a profession or a hobby. To be honest, I was at first intrigued. Antonio Lopez went about the familiar task of assembling a frame and stretching a canvas during the opening credits. My mind was open and cynicism was not my objective. Lopez continued about his business setting up his canvas and location to paint. My interest was still relatively high as he set up a plumb-bob and started graphing lines onto his canvas...it began to seem more as though he was getting ready to graph a geometry problem than create a painting. Finally, after installing foot place-markers and marking the places of all the leaves and pieces of fruit with paint he was finished setting up his scene and was ready to begin painting. I chalked these idiosyncrasies up to the fact that all artists have quirks. My mind was still open and I was ready to see what this man could produce. About a month later in the documentary (and a seemingly endless amount of time in reality) he had created a half-ass painting, which he decided to give up on. He then decided to use the same scene to create a drawing. Another month later, upon reaching a similar level of half-assedness this too was shelved and he decided to turn to filming the rotting fruit that had fallen from the tree onto the ground. This was probably his most successful endeavor, although I'm assuming that watching the footage of the fruit might possibly be even more innocuous than the documentary itself, but not by a very great margin. The fruit eventually rotted, but not before my brain began to chew its way through my skull. Altogether Lopez made art seem more like a rigid set of imperialistic rules than about expression, escapism or even (gasp!) enjoyment. As soon as something went wrong, or his subject lost data (the sun no longer being in the right position, or a piece of fruit falling from the tree or shifting position) he would alter the painting to record this new set of data. This made no sense at all, because if he were, by some miracle, able to "finish" his painting, it would continue to lose data and therefore his painting would technically have to be updated. He could have literally spent the rest of his life painting the same fruit tree. If art is simply about recording every minute detail of reality, why should one bother at all? If you end up with a painting of a fruit tree that looks identical to the one standing in your yard, why bother painting it? You might as well walk outside and see the real thing. As far as I see it, I've lost a little more than two hours of my life that I will never be able to regain. For this I blame Victor Erice.

Dream of Light
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