Music is absent until the final reel, when there’s an attractive guitar piece that perfectly suits the gentle mood.France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. Some scenes disappear into almost-blackness, but the supercharged, dramatic skies over the Catalan countryside are sufficiently spectacular not to need tech manipulation. Like the directly-recorded sound, lighting is entirely natural.
Settings are exclusively rural, and care has been taken not to include any man-made constructions. Visuals are lovingly composed - and there’s ample time to appreciate them. At pic’s heart is the affectionate, sometimes comic relationship, founded on a mutual need that neither man fully understands. The wonderfully corpulent Serrat plays Sancho as passive but unquestioningly devoted. (The rest of the fleetingly seen cast is similarly inexperienced.) Both of the main actors do wonders, given the minimal, often banal dialogue.Ĭarbo, with his wild, white hair, unkempt beard and over-alert, mildly crazed expression, looks like an aging Christ he’s close to the Quixote of popular imagination, a driven figure who’s battered but far from down. With its beautifully nuanced and mostly voiceless thesping by the central duo, pic transmits an appealing air of serenity. One night, Quixote is mysteriously spirited away by four men on white horses. The slow ritual of Sancho putting on Quixote’s armor is shown, while the physically most active sequence has Quixote bathing in a river and gleefully encouraging Sancho to do the same.
Over the first 10 minutes, there are only a couple of brief exchanges as Sancho looks for a laurel crown for his master. The frail, aging Quixote (Lluis Carbo) and his calorie-heavy squire, Sancho (Lluis Serrat), are first seen in a field: They both look the worse for wear after another unhappy clash with reality for the knight. Plot is loosely based on a couple of episodes from Cervantes’ novel.
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