Steven Jacobs

Drie bezoekers van Il Cinema Ritrovato bespreken drie films die ze dit jaar op het festival zagen en die hen bijbleven.

Three Il Cinema Ritrovato visitors discuss three films that they saw at this year’s festival and which stayed in their memories.

Just like last year, a coronavirus edition of Bologna’s unsurpassed Cinema Ritrovato festival took place this summer. The festival is unique for its broad focus on the history of film, showing new restorations and recent (re)discoveries rather than new films.

Net zoals vorig jaar vond deze zomer een corona-editie plaats van het onvolprezen Cinema Ritrovato-festival in Bologna, dat met zijn brede focus op de gehele filmgeschiedenis enig is in zijn soort. Niet zozeer nieuwe films worden er vertoond, als wel nieuwe restauraties en recente (her)ontdekkingen.

With its slow rhythm, focus on the mundane and struggle of finishing a single painting, Erice’s El sol del membrillo can be presented as a meditation on the passing of time, hovering between documentary and fiction. Its title, which was translated into English as Dream of Light (The Quince Tree Sun), refers to the sunny period in the autumn that coincides with the ripening of quinces. Both the filmmaker and his painter character attempt to capture the shifting light as it changes with the passing days.