My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
A Japanese documentary on the Spanish artist Antonio Gaudi. Presented with almost no narrative, but accompanied by an eclectic, moody soundtrack, everything you learn about Gaudi will be from admiring his works, and they are impressive. His distinctive, modern style is both playful and Gothic, with a childlike fascination for nature, but always skewed towards the grotesque. Teshigahara only occasionally breaks his obvious admiration with glimpses of people at work or play among the public art work, and even more rarely with some brief dialogue. The final scenes are of the famous Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, still under construction at the time of filming, but its originality undeniable.
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