30th MOSTRA Internacional de Cinema Saô Paulo 2006 BFI 2006, The Times London Film Festival VIENNALE - Vienna International Film Festival 2006 - FIPRESCI Award 25th Vancouver International Film Festival 2006 54º Festival Intenacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2006 Cannes Film Festival - Directors' Fortnight 2006 Some scenes disappear into almost-blackness, but the supercharged, dramatic skies over the Catalan countryside are sufficiently spectacular not to need tech manipulation. Like the directly-recorded sound, lighting is entirely natural. With its beautifully nuanced and mostly voiceless thesping by the central duo, Honor de Cavalleria transmits an appealing air of serenity. One night, Quixote is mysteriously spirited away by four men on white horses. The slow ritual of Sancho putting on Quixote's armor is shown, while the physically most active sequence has Quixote bathing in a river and gleefully encouraging Sancho to do the same. Over the first ten minutes, there are only a couple of brief exchanges as Sancho looks for a laurel crown for his master. Silent and gentle where the original is verbose and tumultuous, Serra reads between the lines of Cervantes' masterpiece and works its absences up into two hours of painterly auteur fare. A hauntingly serene and sometimes moving experimental take on «Don Quixote», Albert Serra's Honor de Cavalleria seems to have spliced that Spanish classic to «Waiting for Godot» via Bresson and Ozu.
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