Beauty of Their Dreams
A married American couple goes to the San Sebastian Festival and gets caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies. The film tells the story of an Am…
Beauty of Their Dreams
A married American couple goes to the San Sebastian Festival and gets caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies. The film tells the story of an American couple attending the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The charm of that small city in the North of Spain and the charm of the world of cinema soon seduce the couple. She has a slip with a brilliant French film director, while he falls in love with a young Spanish resident in the city. Reluctantly, Mort Rifkin, a disenchanted New York City film critic and perpetually uninspired novelist, finds himself attending the annual San Sebastián International Film Festival as the plus-one of his elegant, successful, press-officer wife Sue. as her plus-one. She has her hands full organizing the schedule of her lofty French auteur protégé Philippe, so neurotic Mort whiles away the time wandering around the picture-perfect resort town and trying to become friends with local cardiologist Dr Jo Rojas, convinced that they don't make movies like they used to. However, the heart wants what it wants, and as he re-envisions the work of the great European masters--such as François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, and Luis Buñuel--Mort's black-and-white celluloid dreams come to life. Can life become exciting again at Rifkin's Festival? —Nick Riganas
Beauty of Their Dreams
Documentary
Film Details
A married American couple goes to the San Sebastian Festival and gets caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies. The film tells the story of an American couple attending the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The charm of that small city in the North of Spain and the charm of the world of cinema soon seduce the couple.
She has a slip with a brilliant French film director, while he falls in love with a young Spanish resident in the city. Reluctantly, Mort Rifkin, a disenchanted New York City film critic and perpetually uninspired novelist, finds himself attending the annual San Sebastián International Film Festival as the plus-one of his elegant, successful, press-officer wife Sue. as her plus-one.
She has her hands full organizing the schedule of her lofty French auteur protégé Philippe, so neurotic Mort whiles away the time wandering around the picture-perfect resort town and trying to become friends with local cardiologist Dr Jo Rojas, convinced that they don't make movies like they used to. However, the heart wants what it wants, and as he re-envisions the work of the great European masters--such as François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, and Luis Buñuel--Mort's black-and-white celluloid dreams come to life. Can life become exciting again at Rifkin's Festival? —Nick Riganas.