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Barcelona (Un Mapa)
- Director: Ventura Pons
- Writer: Lluïsa Cunillé; Ventura Pons
- Producer: Ventura Pons
CGiii Comment
As a play it probably worked - as a film it doesn't.
Pons knows how to make a film...this has all the vital ingredients: fine performances, beautifully shot and lit...alas, the story is bunk...
It careers off into incredulity - leaving the audience, quite rightly, frustrated and furious.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Ventura Pons' Barcelona (un mapa)/Barcelona (a map) (2007) is the director's bold adaptation of Lluïsa Cunillé's play Barcelona, mapa d'ombres/Barcelona, map of shadows. The play takes place in a claustrophobic flat where six nameless characters engage in strange dialogues during five succinct two-character scenes. Pons's adaptation follows the same sequence, including the closely transcribed characters' exchanges, but amplifying them by establishing another dialogue, visually and textually, with Catalan history. Accentuating the multiple themes that inform the play, he filters the whole narrative through a crystal régime, a cinematic style that, as Gilles Deleuze describes in The Time-Image (1985), coalesces actual and virtual images.
Cast & Characters
Nuria Espert as Rosa;
Josep Maria Pou as Ramon;
Rosa Maria Sarda as Lola;
Jordi Bosch as Santi;
Maria Botto as Violeta;
Pablo Derqui as David;
Daniel Medraan as General Bautista;
Ramon Villegas as Xapero;
Miranda Makaroff as Rosa jove;
German Parreno as Fill Lola;
Jaume Borras as Avi Rosa;
Janis Ases as Rosa nena;
Alex Gil as Santi nen;
Salvador Tellez as Pare Rosa;
Alain Hernandez as Juan Rubio