"I've started to think it might just be the future of cinema."

"En La Ciudad De Sylvia is a film about memory, and those promising encounters we've all had - on trains, perhaps, or the beach, or on top of the Eiffel Tower - that might have gone somewhere but didn't, and return to mind every so often as a tantalising road not followed."

"Guerin has created an almost plotless film that has the dramatic tension of vintage Hitchcock."

"It's a film I can't wait to see again."

Lee Marshall

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

"Jose Luis Guerín is one of the most exceptional and brave men in Spanish film.

A radical and courageous narrative proposal, as seen in all of his work.

In this world of globalisation (...) a film such as In the City of Sylvia is revealed as a catalyst for the senses. It operates at several levels within the viewer's consciousness, allowing ones own participation in the creation of the story.

Ella is Pilar López de Ayala is one of the most important young actors (quality and prestige) of Spanish cinema."

Adrián Massanet

EXTRACINE

José Luis Guerín's lovely, exceedingly graceful work eloquently captures the feeling of being in love with love, and the youthful sense of a world filled with an almost limitless sensuality.

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

"The only challenge presented to the viewer is to accept this film's simplicity and honesty."

"To see: A film-maker's preferred verb, in this case conjugated with absolute sincerity and innocence."

"Score: **** (out of 5)."

E. Rodríguez Marchante

ABC

"The search for a romantic archetype in a neocapitalist society."

Carlos Losilla

CAHIERS DU CINEMA ESPAÑA

"As perplexing as it is wonderful."

Sergio Fdez. Pinilla

KANE3

"Small and huge at the same time. A true wonder."

Oliver Séguret

LIBÉRATION

"Magnificent and matchless."

Jacques Mandelbaum

LE MONDE

"Image becomes a performer; it goes straight to the heart."

Maurizio Porro

CORRIERE DELLA SERA

"The secret to becoming rich is to subtract as opposed to add. (...) If there is anything comparable to the pleasure of seeing, it is the pleasure of watching somebody seeing.

During most of this film, Guerin can afford to omit the resources tradition has associated with audible movies, such as dialogue or background music that does not come from the environment where it's filmed.

An investigation of the idealized woman or that woman which hasn't yet been found (...) An attentive study of female gestures."

Jaime Natche

MIRADAS DE CINE

"This film unfolds the plot and mis-en-scene to the extreme.

Bresson, Ozu and Antonioni's echoes resound in fields populated by faces, reflections, signs, and the ghost of a woman called Sylvia.

The dialogue is almost nonexistent; sense prevails over emotion, making this film a feast for hardened movie lovers."

I.M.

ELMUNDO

"Lyrical tale of forlorn love, "In the City of Sylvia," is a treat for romantics and people watchers."

"It's a picture that audiences may wish to see more than once in order to relish it all."

Ray Bennett

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Although the story situation is slight, the tension we feel springs partly from vivid stylistic patterns. In other words: Minimal and uncertain story action is heightened by engaging visual narration. This narration in turn derives its power from one of the most traditional devices of filmic storytelling."

David Bordwell

"This sensualist delight is an immaculate expression of the thrill of the hunt and the cruel damage our hearts of glass incur from an unexpected loss or missed opportunity."

Ed Gonzalez

SLANT MAGAZINE

"There are perceptible traces of such filmmakers as Tati and Hitchcock, who each insisted in his own way that what crosses the viewers' mind while watching a film is as important as what he is being shown."

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL