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The Sky Turns

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Original title: El cielo gira
Year: 2004
Running time: 105 min.
Country: Spain
Director: Mercedes Álvarez
Screenwriter: Mercedes Álvarez, Arturo Redín
Cast: Documentary, Self: Pello Azketa
Cinematography: Alberto Rodríguez
Producer: José María Lara P.C, Alokatu S.L
Genre: Documentary. Drama | Small Town Life (Non-North American). Old Age / Elderly
Synopsis: The last child to be born in the tiny village of La Aldea in Spain’s rugged north, Mercedes Álvarez and her parents left the area when she was three years old. Decades later she decides to return home, to discover the world her family like so many others left behind. The town now has been reduced to just a few elderly people, in whose lined faces the history of the region seems to be etched. Some plans to revitalize the region are proposed; the castle could become a hotel, and fossils of ancient creatures and ruins of bygone civilizations could attract tourists, yet whatever remedy is proposed would surely be too late for those who live there now. Álvarez’s most telling encounter is with Pello Azketa, a painter gradually going blind, who tries to capture the disappearance of a way of life as his own eyesight slowly deserts him.

Awards: 2005: Festival Málaga: Best Documentary

2005: BAFICI: Best Film

2005: Rotterdam Film Festival: Tiger Award to Best film

2005: Forqué Awards: Best Documentary or Animated Film

2006: Forqué Awards: Best Documentary or Animated Film.

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"Distinguished only by Alberto Rodriguez's impressionistic cinematography (...) The filmmaker makes some ambitious thematic leaps (...) But Alvarez's pacing is tortured, and her metaphor of a nearly blind painter recording a dying culture is heavy-handed."

Andrea Gronvall: Chicago Reader

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The Sky Turns

2004

Mercedes Álvarez

7.2

(1,418)