Some scenes disappear into almost-blackness, but the supercharged, dramatic skies over the Catalan countryside are sufficiently spectacular not to need tech manipulation. Like the directly-recorded sound, lighting is entirely natural. Settings are exclusively rural, and care has been taken not to include any man-made constructions.
Visuals are lovingly composed - and there’s ample time to appreciate them. At pic’s heart is the affectionate, sometimes comic relationship, founded on a mutual need that neither man fully understands. The wonderfully corpulent Serrat plays Sancho as passive but unquestioningly devoted. (The rest of the fleetingly seen cast is similarly inexperienced.) Both of the main actors do wonders, given the minimal, often banal dialogue.Ĭarbo, with his wild, white hair, unkempt beard and over-alert, mildly crazed expression, looks like an aging Christ he’s close to the Quixote of popular imagination, a driven figure who’s battered but far from down. 95 mins More at IMDb TMDb Report this film. With its beautifully nuanced and mostly voiceless thesping by the central duo, pic transmits an appealing air of serenity. Al rodarla, el equipo técnico y artístico realiza un viaje paralelo (cinematográfico y vital) al de los dos protagonistas del libro la identificación de estos dos viajes es el tema principal de la película. Quixotic/Honor de Cavelleria, Honra de Cavalaria, Lonore della cavalleria, I timi tis ipposynis, Honor de caballería Genre. One night, Quixote is mysteriously spirited away by four men on white horses. The slow ritual of Sancho putting on Quixote’s armor is shown, while the physically most active sequence has Quixote bathing in a river and gleefully encouraging Sancho to do the same. Over the first 10 minutes, there are only a couple of brief exchanges as Sancho looks for a laurel crown for his master. The frail, aging Quixote (Lluis Carbo) and his calorie-heavy squire, Sancho (Lluis Serrat), are first seen in a field: They both look the worse for wear after another unhappy clash with reality for the knight. Barcellona Film Awards 2006: candidato e vincitore nelle. Con il film Honor de cavalleria, del 2006, Serra, ha concorso a diverse premiazioni cinematografiche di rilevanza europea. Albert Serra took the characters of Honor de Cavalleria and his regular team of. Nato del 1975 nella comunità catalana di Banyoles, a 18 anni si trasferisce a Barcellona per dedicarsi allo studio di filologia ispanica, teoria della letteratura e storia dellarte. Plot is loosely based on a couple of episodes from Cervantes’ novel. The Catalan filmmakers taking part in this project are Albert Serra.