Visionaries
Theatrical release poster
SpanishVisionarios
Directed byManuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Screenplay byManuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHans Burmann
Edited byJosé Salcedo
Music byBingen Mendizábal
Production
companies
Distributed byAltaFilms
Release dates
  • 21 September 2001 (2001-09-21) (Zinemaldia)
  • 11 October 2001 (2001-10-11) (Spain)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Visionaries (Spanish: Visionarios) is a 2001 Spanish romantic and religious drama directed and written by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. It stars Eduardo Noriega and Ingrid Rubio alongside Karra Elejalde, Fernando Fernán Gómez, and Emma Suárez.

Plot

Featuring the backdrop of the alleged Marian apparitions that occurred during the Second Spanish Republic in the village of Ezkioga, Gipuzkoa, and the climate of integrist violence arising in reaction to secularization policies,[1][2] the plot follows the doomed love story between Joshe (a wannabe teacher visiting the village in order to meet with his fiancée Edurne) and Usual, a maid working at the inn.[3]

Cast

Production

The film is an Aiete-Ariane Films and Sogecine production, and it had the collaboration of ICAA, Gobierno Vasco, Canal+ and TVE.[3] Shooting locations included the Larraun Valley.[5]

Release

Selected within the lineup of the 49th San Sebastián International Film Festival's official selection, the film premiered in September 2001.[6] Distributed by AltaFilms,[3] it was theatrically released in Spain on 11 October 2001.[7]

Reception

David Rooney of Variety considered that while a prestige picture (owing to the high-profile cast and polished production values), the film is limited by "its lifelessly reverential approach, lack of emotional engagement and failure of the central romance to conjure any lasting resonance".[3]

Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País considered that despite "a powerful synthetic start" and a captivating story (sketching a "magnificent gloomy portrait of closed and sexton Spain"), the denouement does not live up to promise upon the disappearance of father Laburu from the picture and the film loses some of its initial punch.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Elorza, Antonio (26 October 2001). "Ezkioga, hoy". El País.
  2. 1 2 Fernández-Santos, Ángel (23 September 2021). "Llegan los 'Visionarios' de Gutiérrez Aragón". El País.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rooney, David (12 October 2001). "Visionaries". Variety.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Visionarios: la historia olvidada de los videntes de Ezkioga" (PDF). Diario del Festival. San Sebastián International Film Festival: 4. 23 September 2001.
  5. ↑ "Visionarios". Navarra Film Commission. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Fernández-Santos, Elsa (23 September 2001). "El grupo Sogecable invierte 11.464 millones de pesetas en películas españolas en 2001". El País.
  7. ↑ "Visionarios". Sensacina. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  8. ↑ Fernández-Santos, Ángel (12 October 2001). "Un gran fresco esperpéntico de la España negra". El País.
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