Some Photos in the City of Sylvia
2007 · 67 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 133 VOTES · DIR. José Luis Guerín
Overview
This remarkable companion piece to In the City of Sylvia offers a compendium of images recorded by Guerín in Strasbourg while searching for the traces of a (fictional?) brief encounter some years earlier with a young woman named Sylvia.
Dialogue Timeline — 243 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 SOME PICTURES…
00:01:36 This way we used to alternate languages in our conversation
00:02:36 I have two pieces of material evidence from that meeting:
00:04:23 in the course of a literary pilgrimage in my youth…
00:06:39 23rd August - New attempts to find Sylvia…
00:09:28 …a flux of life that evokes the missing person.
00:14:05 1st Sep. -
00:20:14 At the crossing of the Corbeau Bridge, I lose her.
00:25:17 a woman is waiting for the tram.
00:29:09 16th Sep. -
00:34:28 … Life goes on despite all its roars.
00:37:11 Among the accumulated mail…
00:38:19 …he had compared them all with the image engraved in his memory
00:44:54 …a vague image, almost a reflection…
00:48:06 In the church, 700 years ago
00:50:51 before returning to the eternal spring
00:53:28 …where he saw her for the first time.
00:55:10 …a laurel.
00:57:12 true
00:58:27 …in others
01:05:01 A film in this city…
01:06:05 and other faces capable of evoking that one…
14:09:03 Tramway Line 6
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed243
Dialogue density3.6 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line14:09:03
Production Record
DirectorJosé Luis Guerín
LanguageSpanish
IMDb votes133