Fernando Trueba : 2012
The Artist and the Model
Occupied France in 1943. An old renowned sculptor, tired of life and mankind's folly, rediscovers the desire to work again and sculpt his last piece after the unexpected arrival of a young Spanish woman. Marc Cros lives in a small town near the Spanish border. Now 80 years old, he gave up his lifetime's work some years ago. One day his wife and former model, Léa, brings home a Spanish peasant girl, Mercè, who is fleeing Franco's army and has escaped from a refugee camp. Léa offers Mercè refuge in the sculptor's studio and during her stay there, to become his model in what will be the last work of a man who has devoted his life to a search for beauty. Throughout his life, Cros has worked entirely in one direction, trying to achieve through simplicity, the essence of form – beauty in its purest sense, stripped of all artifice. Gradually, a beautiful relationship is born between the girl whose life is just at its beginning, and the artist who sees the horizon near the end. The film won the Silver Shell for Best Director at San Sebastián Film Festival 2012.
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