The Quince Tree Sun (1992) by Victor Erice – (5/10)

The Quince Tree Sun is the third and most likely final movie by the ellusive Spannish filmmakerVictor Erice. Overtly productive he isn’t granted that he made his first short movie almost 50 years ago now and has finished 3 full length movies so far. The tiny group of people that are actually familiar with his work once placed him and some still do on the same hight as Tarkovsky.

The Quince Tree Sun is either a documentary or a movie that was made to look like a documentary, either way, it doesn’t really matter. It is about the Spanish hyperrealist painter Antonio López García, who has been attempting for some 20 years now to paint a quince tree that grows in his garden. The movie documents his struggle to put a single moment of real-life perfection on canvas and his constant failures to achieve doing so. It is a very interesting movie, the same can be said of the struggle, what it al means and the quest itself. I did find it overly long and a bit dull, should have been quite a bit shorter or something else should have happened but than again, I suppose that, that would have been against the whole point that the movie or documentary was trying to make.