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A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier. Read more

Starring Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Michaël Balerdi, Laurence Cordier
Director José Luis Guerín
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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In the City of Sylvia

A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier.

Starring Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Michaël Balerdi, Laurence Cordier, Tanja Czichy, Gladys Deussner, Eric Dietrich, Charlotte Dupont
Director José Luis Guerín
Studio AXIOM FILMS
Run time DVD: 1 hr 24 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language French, Spanish
Subtitles English
Released DVD: 22 Jun 2009
Production year: 2009
Format DVD

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  • 5 stars out of

    The foolhardy attempts of a bookish lothario to stoke the fires of his fading memory are captured with mad invention in... read more on Time Out

    • David Jenkins, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 10 Dec 2008

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  • 12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    What a complete waste of time

    If any other bloke carried on like this one, he'd have at least two black eyes, a broken leg and a restraining order.

    The editing and poor continuity drive you mad. The contrived scenes drive you madder still.

    Story? It's the third part of the classic, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy looks for girl. In this case the boy is totally unbelievable and dull as ditchwater. How on earth he got passed the first part, I'll never know. Thankfully, it wasn't filmed. The second part would be a very short film. No way is there going to be a fourth part!

    Screenplay? Probably get it all onto the inside of a Cornflakes packet - in large 5 yr-olds writing.

    Sound - bizarre and in many cases poorly foleyed on.

    The best bit? Hitting the eject button at the end.

    The worst bit? The bloke (extra) throwing bread to feed pigeons in a contrived scene where the birds weren't interested. Anybody knows, that if you feed the birds, they're there in droves. Even the one sparrow that flew into shot wasn't interested. So why was he throwing bread out? I don't consider this to be a spoiler because it did nothing in the film.

    Guys, it's not even in Spanish. Leave well alone.

      • Benhuczek from London
      • Posted 01 Jul 2009 16:54

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    dull as

    I was wary of the rapturous reviews for this film. The slow pace would have been tolerable if at any point a story had emerged; it is beautifully shot but empty. Try Pasolini for existential angst in pretty places.

      • matt from shrewsbury
      • Posted 26 Jun 2009 16:56

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