BORN REVIEWS
EL TEMPS – 01-12-2014
Rossellini and Zulian: from Lluís XIV to Born Àlex Gorina
“Born” is filmed using the marvelous light of candles and corners where the sun barely reaches thanks to the realism of Jimmy Gimferrer. And thus, making the picture beautiful: not presumptuous, but fair. In “Born” everything happens in the vicinity: at home, at work, with the family, while we hear the streets, the animals, the sea, the movement of life, the bells, the noises of the trades, explosions and shootings, the singing and breath of the air. Providing the public with a rich and masterful soundtrack that opens the fourth dimension and lets us know it, identify it and smell it all off-screen. An economical resource that also shows this expressive and omnipresent background, giving this film a grand personality. Great actors, condensation, sense of resignation and sobriety, chamber work; the era is portrayed with the same strength of Vermeer painting a simple girl reading a letter without seeing the life beyond the window.
This is the cinema that we can and must do.
LA VANGUARDIA – 21-11-2014 “Born”: 1714 a la Rossellini
Jordi Batlle Caminal
Seeing this brilliant film, apart from Rossellini, reminds us of Gerard Gormezano of “El vent de l’illa”. As in that film, the final frame, with a formidable stillness and serenity, will not be forgotten.
EL PAÍS – 21-11-2014 The buried city
Jordi Costa
“Born” takes timely advantage of its narrative ellipses and confronts, with rigor free from all tension, easements of the digital hyperrealism that almost always betrays its condition of illusion. Zulian is bressonian in its strategy of historical reconstruction, but decides to forget about that model in his direction of actors: filmed indoors and with closed shots, off-screen bombings and assaults, concluding in a very clever and effective way with a long fixed frame that concentrates on all the disappointments, that culminated in the unfulfilled promise of this potential stage of change and entry into modernity.
EL PUNT AVUI – 21-11-2014 The off-screen of 1714
Àngel Quintana
“A stenography that rejects all artifice, which plays a dramatic and expressive restraint and finds all its strength in two fundamental elements: light and sound.”
EL SÉPTIMO VICIO (RTVE) – 29/10/14 The most sensual “Born”
Javier Tolentino
Claudio Zulian has directed an extraordinary period film set in XVIII century in the Barcelona of crafts, workshops, brothels and bookshops.
CAIMÁN CUADERNOS DE CINE – 01-11-2014 Born review
Jonay Armas
Author of “A través del Carmel” (2009), Claudio Zulian seems devoted to reveal the heart of Barcelona. An exercise of (re)construction of history that can cover the work of a particular field, as in his previous documentary, and the suggestive discourse on the past that takes place in “Born”. A past that is not as distant as it might seem. The filmmaker’s work uses the power of cinema as a beautiful instrument of memory.
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