THE LORD WORKED WONDERS IN ME
El Senyor ha fet en mi meravelles
Spain | 2011 | 146 min | col.
A portion of the crew of Albert Serra’s Quixotic/Honor de Cavalleria, inspired by Cervantes’ masterpiece, goes to La Mancha to see the actual setting of Don Quixote’s actions for the sake of a new film. When they realize those landscapes have disappeared, they begin filming inside the hotel and on board the van with which they travel, making a film that records daily situations and little gestures of intimacy: people who relax between a take and the next, discuss, eat, drink, bathe in the river, and wait the film director in a barren, sun-beaten landscape. As part of a project for the Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture, in which Serra and Lisandro Alonso agree to exchange film letters discussing their previous works, the Spanish director makes a film in a film, a reflection on – his, but not exclusively – cinema, time, and the way in which this is shared on set, outlining an affectionate portrait of his entourage. (a.s.)
Free admission subject to availability
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Time: 11:00
Location
- Palazzo Strozzi - Piazza degli Strozzi 50123 Firenze FI
Organizer
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Albert Serra
Albert Serra was born in 1975 in Banyoles, Spain. HE’s PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Universitat de Barcelona. In 2006, Serra wrote, directed and produced his debut feature Honour of the Knights, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2006. Since then, all his films have premiered at Cannes except Story of My Death, that won the Golden Leopard in Locarno in 2013. His major filmography includes Birdsong (2009), Lord Worked Wonders in Me (2011), The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Prix Jean Vigo winner) and Liberté (2019, Special Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard in Cannes). He created the 101 hours film Three Little Pigs for Documenta in 2013. He has also shown Singularity (2015) at the Venice Viennale of Art. In 2022, he directed Pacifiction, premiered at the Official Selection in Competition at Cannes Film Festival. He received the Louis Delluc Prize and two César Prizes for this film. He has given lectures at numerous museums, universities and cultural centers, and many retrospectives of his work have been held around the world.
