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The Sky Turns
Directed by
Mercedes Álvarez
2004
1h 50m
Documentary
6.8
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One year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain.
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Cast of The Sky Turns
Peio Azketa
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Hicham Chate
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Cirilo Fernández
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Josefa García
Herself
Román García
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Silvano García
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Valentina García
Herself
Alfredo Jimeno
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Crispina Lamata
Herself
Antonino Martínez
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Blanca Martínez
Herself
Áurea Mingo
Herself
Milagros Monje
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Salah Rafia
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Mercedes Álvarez
Director / Writer
Arturo Redín
Writer
Jose Maria Lara
Producer
The Sky Turns Ratings & Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Elegiac documentary of one year in the life of the director's hometown in her rural north Spain farming community.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Without relying on melodrama or nostalgia, Alvarez embraces the inescapable nature of impermanence.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Instead of expressing sorrow for a vanishing way of life, "The Sky Turns'' exudes a clear and weightless joy.
Slant Magazine
Robert Tumas
Alverez's film is nearly brimming with chuckle-inducing existential aporia and wise old quips that are powerful enough to make men smile in the face of death.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A somewhat meandering, yet provocative and lyrical documentation of a village's history, its evolution and the memories of its 14 villagers.
New York Times
Mike Hale
A fastidious tone poem, meticulously composed and deliberately paced.
New York Times
A fastidious tone poem, meticulously composed and deliberately paced.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
In the beautifully com posed documentary "The Sky Turns," filmmaker Mercedes Alvarez returns after 35 years to Aldealsenor, the remote Spanish village where she was born.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
startlingly personal
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
A documentary about the demise of the filmmaker's village in Spain, The Sky Turns is poorly conceived but pleasing to look at.
Village Voice
Andrew Schenker
Nothing speaks more elegantly to the bewilderment of the locals than a long shot of newly built windmills lining a distant hilltop while a villager, made tiny by lvarez's framing, looks on in the foreground, swallowed up by the forces of history.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
This documentary has been winning awards in festivals and it's easy to see why: It's a personal, lyrical, original meditation about time, memory, history and space.
Boxoffice Magazine
Matthew Nestel
What's rendered here is a fleeting life where we're mere visitors with roots that come and go. The film is testament to this transient existence.
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