THE ACADEMY OF MUSES
A film by Jose Luis Guerin
2015, 92 minutes
2015, 92 minutes
No. 037
NARRATIVE
NARRATIVE
Description
A brilliant, beguiling film from the director of In the City of Sylvia, Jose Luis Guerin's The Academy of Muses fuses elements of documentary and fiction for a thrilling meditation on desire, love and gender in literature and today's society.
Dante's Beatrice. Lancelot's Guinevere. At the University of Barcelona, professor Raffaele Pinto teaches a class espousing the importance of muses in art and history - women (and always women) who have inspired great artists and writers. His students, made up almost entirely of women, take issue with some of his pronouncements, as does his wife.
Guerin uses this set-up to put into motion a series of romantic entanglements (between Pinto and his students) and sharp arguments (between Pinto and his wife) that threaten the foundation of both his marriage and ideas.
Dante's Beatrice. Lancelot's Guinevere. At the University of Barcelona, professor Raffaele Pinto teaches a class espousing the importance of muses in art and history - women (and always women) who have inspired great artists and writers. His students, made up almost entirely of women, take issue with some of his pronouncements, as does his wife.
Guerin uses this set-up to put into motion a series of romantic entanglements (between Pinto and his students) and sharp arguments (between Pinto and his wife) that threaten the foundation of both his marriage and ideas.
Festivals
* Official Selection, Locarno Film Festival
* Official Selection, Art of the Real, Film Society of Lincoln Center
* Official Selection, CPH:DOX
* Official Selection, Art of the Real, Film Society of Lincoln Center
* Official Selection, CPH:DOX
Reviews
"Sensational. An unexpected crowdpleaser.” – Indiewire
"A dazzling achievement. An intimate, romantic intrigue of words passed between teacher and student, husband and wife, friend and foe." – Keyframe
"Erudite, sensitively mature and wickedly comic." - Sight and Sound
"A dazzling achievement. An intimate, romantic intrigue of words passed between teacher and student, husband and wife, friend and foe." – Keyframe
"Erudite, sensitively mature and wickedly comic." - Sight and Sound
