A pesar de la noche

The sleep of reason gives rise to monsters, fortunately, because Grandrieux's night full of emotions can be inhabited by monsters, but also by fallen women and fallen angels of self-destructive emotions. The night of reason gives rise to owls and bats in Goya and also in Grandrieux we descend with bats into the cave of a relatively isolated social milieu, in which every inclination is confirmed by physicality at the moment of its conception, just as the painter's imagination has given tangible form to falling ideas in the shape of animals – and we will truly observe the whole film as every speech, every deepest word passes on its way to the other person into a fully tangible sexual expression. Without compromising in any way, since chiaroscuro is a valuable technique that reveals that contrast can be more impressive than the formlessness of day, and the director proves that synthesis can unite image and word in opposition. To connect so perfectly fantastically that the viewer, who succumbs, feels an inexpressible understanding, even though the film cannot explain too much... How, after all, can one coherently express that connecting line that begins in one realm of human experience and ends in another? (05.03.2019)