In the City of Sylvia 2007 123movies

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Plot: A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 2,502
	78% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 39 Popularity: 2.098 | TMDB

Reviews:

Towards a new cinema?
It is one of the most written about and blogged about films of the last few years.References abound,from Bresson to Hitchcock,Rohmer,Murnau,even Dante and Petrarch,but is it too slender to sustain such a formidable weight of cultural allusions? While it is undoubtedly true that it is reminiscent of many other films,there is something sufficiently fresh and different which makes it definitely stand out. The story could not be more simple.A dreamy looking young man waits alone in a café in Strasbourg scanning each female passer by in the hope that she may be Sylvia whom he met in the city six years ago.Eventually he sees someone who may be her and he begins to obsessively pursue her through a labyrinth of streets and alleyways.Yes, “Vertigo” is of course brought to mind and there is a wealth of allusions to the feminist theory of the controlling power of the male gaze.But there is more to it than that.The ditching of much narrative,characterisation and even dialogue give rise to a new form of cinema experience,a concentration on the purely sensuous aspect of cinema,an increased awareness of the power of everyday sights and sounds which cinema usually elides in favour of a forward thrusting narrative and a well-defined protagonist.

A film for people watchers
I’ve selected “may contain spoilers” although I’m not entirely sure you could spoil the experience of watching this in anyway by describing the entire “narrative”. Boy sees girl, boy follows girl, boy finally talks to girl. Nothing much happens. I’ve given it 10 out of 10. That’s 10 out of 10 if you’re a people watcher of course! The observational skills required of the viewer remind me of the opening scene in the airport in Jacques Tati’s “Playtime”. I thought when I read the synopsis that it would be hard going but the time just flew by and the credits appeared all too soon.

There have been discussions about the film being voyeurism, that it seeks to ogle women in the disguise of an art film. This is not how it struck me. The photography is ravishing and the actors are very beautiful I grant you, but the film as art idea that Guerin is pursuing here means it is inevitable that we look at beauty. Surely the boy is just as beautiful anyway. Are we voyeurs when we enter an art gallery or are we just innocent viewers who like beauty? It’s an ongoing discussion between two points of view which will never see eye to eye and so is a redundant criticism of this film. I sense the dead hand of excessive Political Correctness here.

Yes there are continuity errors people (what film hasn’t), his jacket disappears between one shot and another at one stage for example. My point would be that it doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t impinge on the experience.

Has he made a mistake or is she just trying to deny her way out of renewing the acquaintance? I wasn’t sure that it was a mistake, he seems so certain. As in Haneke’s “Hidden” Guerin does not provide us with a definitive answer. In this style of cinema, and I agree with the comments about this being film as art, who needs answers! Certainly not everybody’s type of film, one or two walked out at the NFT3 viewing I was at, but for those of us prepared to put in the level of concentration required it was pure delight.

Other Information:

Original Language es
Runtime 1 hr 24 min (84 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama
Director José Luis Guerín
Writer José Luis Guerín
Actors Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Laurence Cordier
Country Spain, France
Awards 3 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Super 16
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm