Work in Progress

En construcción

Colour, 35mm
Spain, France, 2001, 125 min
Section: Variety Critics´ Choice

Director: José Luis Guerín
Screenplay: José Luis Guerín
Dir. of Photography: Alex Gaultier
Designer: Elena Mari
Editor: Mercedes Alvarez, Núria Esquerra
Producer: Antoni Camín
Production: Ovideo TV, s.a.
Sales: Planeta D
Contact: ICAA
  
Cast: Juana Rodríguez, Iván Guzmán Jímenez, Juan López, Juan Manuel López, Santiago Segade, Abdel Azíz El Mountassir, Antonio Atar

Synopsis

As unsung at home as Victor Erice, the helmer to whom he clearly owes a sizable debt, Jose Luís Guerín is one of the more idiosyncratic Spanish talents at work. Built around an idea which looks doomed on paper but which works brilliantly on screen - to record the construction of a building - "Work in Progress" is willfully offbeat but the docu´s potential pretentiousness is beautifully held in check by its warm, embracing humanity. Only Guerín´s fourth pic in 18 years, "Work" is a craftily edited summary of 110 hours of footage recorded over 18 months during the building of an apartment block in Barcelona´s El Chino district. There is no voiceover explaining who the people are, and no one speaks to camera - what they don´t tell us about themselves is as interesting as what they do. Jonathan Holland

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