Monday, February 19, 2007

La Bicicleta - A New Bike Film

By Sigfrid MonleĆ³n - About the film:
"We wanted to create three stories around a bicycle in a modern city—a city made for cars—and see what would happen, the types of contradictions that would result from this as regards urbanism, models of cities, the fluidity of movement ... all of these themes can be found in some way or other in the three stories, each of which have an interest and a thematic field of their own.
What interested me was to put the characters in relation with the city that surrounds them, and to do this through a new prism. Given that in cities all the space is reserved for cars, by taking their bicycle the characters expose themselves to outer attacks.
Valencia is a booming city, marked by a decaying urbanism where there are old parts, often dilapidated, but alongside these are architectural monuments, the landscape of a modern city. Between the two, we find all the typical places of transit of a city, clusters of streets and parts of a city in a growth phase. All of this seemed very cinematic as a living organism to me." Trailer (In Spanish)

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