Sueño y silencio
The Dream and the Silence
Oriol and Yolanda work as an architect and teacher respectively in Paris where they enjoy a close family relationship with their two young daughters, Alba and Celia. Oriol, who is under pressure at work from his British boss, takes Celia for a holiday in Spain’s Delta del Ebro, a national park in Tarragona where her grandparents, Jaume and Laura, live. A terrible accident happens.
There is much to admire in Rosales’ uncompromising, Ozu-influenced worldview. A total lack of expository dialogue, for example, puts the viewer properly and uncomfortably in the right place as an uninvited interloper on a family tragedy. SUENO Y SILENCIO gathers power as individual family members confront what has happened and their resulting grief. The scenes are improvised by the actors and there’s a great sense of truth in monologues dealing with loss. In the closing sequences in particular, Rosales’ stylistic choices finally knit together to make a retrospectively strong case for his approach. (Fionnuala Halligan)
- Oriol Roselló - Oriol
- Yolanda Galocha - Yolanda
- Alba Rose Montet - Alba
- Celia Correas - Celia
- Jaume Terradas - Jaume
- Laura Latorre - Laura
- Jaime Rosales
- Enric Rufas
- Óscar Durán
- Eva Valiño
- Nino Martínez Sosa
- Thomas Grezaut
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