Antonio Gaudí (2-DVD)

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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 18, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1984
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 424
This 1984 documentary about the architect essentially lets Gaudi's work speak for itself, and it couldn't be more eloquent. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 4/5 -- The film is a visual rhapsody enhanced with music and sound effects created by the renowned Japanese film composer Toru Takemitsu and two collaborators. Full Review
New York Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 4/5 -- A rare and noteworthy film. Full Review
Hartford Courant
Nov 11, 2006
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Don't be surprised if after seeing this movie you find yourself eyeing travel brochures for Barcelona.
Kansas City Star
Feb 29, 2008
Instead of using voiceover narration, Teshigahara uses the camera to glide through Gaudi's bizarre Barcelonean structures. Full Review
Austin Chronicle
Mar 10, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- Had Lewis Carroll switched from jotting down his visions to carving them in stone, his works might have looked a lot like Antonio Gaudí's. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Mar 25, 2008
Something of a passion project, completed decades after an earlier visit by the director, the film is given over to an eager, rolling catalog of Gaudí's fin de siècle works sans much voiceover or any explanatory text. Full Review
Village Voice
Oct 29, 2008

Description by OLDIES.com:

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. Here their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara's Antonio Gaudí takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí's truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film.

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  • UPC: 715515028325
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