Antonio Gaudi (film)
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| Directed by | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| Starring | Antoni Gaudí |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Antonio Gaudí (アントニー・ガウディー) is a 1984 Japanese documentary film by Hiroshi Teshigahara about the works of Antoni Gaudí. In the film the director visits the buildings including houses in Barcelona and the Sagrada Família.
Reception
The Village Voice wrote: "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. ... Toru Takemitsu’s partly electronic score mostly harps on the otherworldliness of it all, while Teshigahara’s shifting editing rhythms forestall outright contemplation."[1]
In The New York Times, critic Stephen Holden wrote: "Much of the imagery in Gaudi is nothing less than astounding in its beauty and boldness, and the blending of a neo-Gothic mysticism and grandeur with an Art Nouveau line and a surreal apprehension of the power of nature".[2]
See also
References
- ^ Rapold, Nicolas (October 28, 2008). "Hiroshi Teshigahara's Antonio Gaudí at Film Forum". Village Voice. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2021.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (February 27, 1998). "A Musical Tour of Architecture as an Ode to Fertility". New York Times. Archived from the original on April 15, 2006. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
External links
- Antonio Gaudí at IMDb
- Antonio Gaudí at Rotten Tomatoes
- Antonio Gaudí: Border Crossings an essay by Dore Ashton at the Criterion Collection