Sueño y silencio (2012)

Director:

Jaime Rosales

Writers:

Jaime Rosales (screenplay), Enric Rufas (screenplay)

Stars:

Oriol Rosselló, Yolanda Galocha, Alba Ros

Cast

Cast overview:
Oriol Rosselló	...	Oriol
Yolanda Galocha	...	Yolanda
Alba Ros	...	Alba (as Alba Ros Montet)
Celia Correas	...	Celia
Jaume Terradas	...	Jaume
Laura Latorre	...	Laura
Carmen Gamboa	...	Carmen
Nadia Akdoumi	...	Nadia
Derek Bush	...	Derek
Catherine Demazière	...	Catherine

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

accident | actress shares first name with character | school teacher | funeral | mourning | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [fr]

Country:

Spain France

Language:

Spanish French Catalan English

Release Date:

8 June 2012 (Spain)

Also Known As:

Dream and Silence

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Box Office

Budget:

€2,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fresdeval Films, Balthazar Productions, Wanda Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

One of the best films in years

I think I'm being unkind giving this film a 9. It's as close to perfection for such a simple film as it's likely to get.

I'll try my best not to include spoilers, but it's difficult not to give too much away.

Okay, where do I start? The performance of the mother in this film is simply mesmerising, the raw emotion of dealing with grief, the pent-up anger at the reaction of her husband.

The film is beautifully shot in black and white, with only a brief flirt with colour. As a film person, I was struggling to work out how the director achieved one shot overlooking a field, that looked like a tracking shot, but wasn't.

One of the most original and moving funeral sequences that I have ever seen, a long lingering shot from a short distance, leaving the family and friends to their privacy.

I cried at one point, I am not ashamed to say. If you see the film, it will probably have the same effect on you, a classroom scene without the class. And a daughter trying to reach out to her father but her father not seeing (again trying not to give too much away!) I hope this film gets a cinema release in the UK, somehow I doubt it will, which would be a real shame. The best film I saw at Cannes by a country mile and also one of the best films I have seen in a very long time. A great example of how to squeeze the maximum out of very simple subject matter.

A real surprise and a revelation.