The Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
(Los Amantes del Círculo Polar)
Country: SP/FR
Technical: col/Super 35 108m
Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo
Synopsis:
After the bombing of Guernica a Luftwaffe pilot bails out and meets a Basque peasant. Sixty years later the grandson of the peasant conceives a love for a girl at the primary school opposite and their lives are subject to coincidence and repetition.
Review:
A film impossible to synopsize, so formal are its concerns. The director again invokes the complicity of the natural world in shaping the destinies of his characters, but there is a playful use of the symbol of the circle too which sets the film apart from his others: their earthy surrealism is tempered here by the self-awareness of a ''jeu d'esprit'. Cheekily the film has two endings, complementing the reflexive nature of the characters' names, Otto and Ana.
(Los Amantes del Círculo Polar)
Country: SP/FR
Technical: col/Super 35 108m
Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo
Synopsis:
After the bombing of Guernica a Luftwaffe pilot bails out and meets a Basque peasant. Sixty years later the grandson of the peasant conceives a love for a girl at the primary school opposite and their lives are subject to coincidence and repetition.
Review:
A film impossible to synopsize, so formal are its concerns. The director again invokes the complicity of the natural world in shaping the destinies of his characters, but there is a playful use of the symbol of the circle too which sets the film apart from his others: their earthy surrealism is tempered here by the self-awareness of a ''jeu d'esprit'. Cheekily the film has two endings, complementing the reflexive nature of the characters' names, Otto and Ana.
(Los Amantes del Círculo Polar)
Country: SP/FR
Technical: col/Super 35 108m
Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo
Synopsis:
After the bombing of Guernica a Luftwaffe pilot bails out and meets a Basque peasant. Sixty years later the grandson of the peasant conceives a love for a girl at the primary school opposite and their lives are subject to coincidence and repetition.
Review:
A film impossible to synopsize, so formal are its concerns. The director again invokes the complicity of the natural world in shaping the destinies of his characters, but there is a playful use of the symbol of the circle too which sets the film apart from his others: their earthy surrealism is tempered here by the self-awareness of a ''jeu d'esprit'. Cheekily the film has two endings, complementing the reflexive nature of the characters' names, Otto and Ana.