"La Leyenda del tiempo" from Isaki Lacuesta, is one of the most exciting films of the Festival of Rotterdam. (...) The film delicately links together two portraits of the mythical singer-songwriter Camarón de la Isla. (...) So beautiful and moving it will bring tears to your eyes."

Isabelle Regnier

LE MONDE

"Excellent. (...) I have seen Isaki Lacuesta's movie twice before writing this. Intellectual pleasure prevailed the first time I saw it; the satisfaction of an intelligent and unpretentious piece of work produced by a young filmmaker who stands out due to his maturity and scrupulousness (...)"

"Nonetheless, I must confess the impact was even higher when I saw the film for the second time. It caused deep emotion; a knot in the stomach which is stimulated only by those films that reflect the presence of a great film director, one who breathes and feels its immediate reality. Someone who aside from knowing films also appreciates life."

Carlos Losilla

DIRIGIDO POR...

"A film that offers an absolutely innovating insight. Isaki Lacuesta is one of the few directors who has figured out the paths of current cinema, and his work can with reason be placed in a wide line that extends from Jim Jarmush's and Gus Van Sant's cinema to the work of some of the most interesting Oriental directors, such as Tsai Ming Liang and Huo Hsiao Hsien".

Angel Quintana

EL PUNT

"Isaki Lacuesta knocks down the barrier between reality and fiction and creates a tender and moving film. Unclassifiable, it defies the cinematographic language over and over again."

Teresa Cendrós

EL PAÍS

****

"A film that sweeps you off your feet with its simplicity, its poetry and its intensity."

FOTOGRAMAS

"Colossal cinema, without doubt. The affirmation of great cinematographic talent".

Xavi Serra

BENZINA

"The film paints a very cinematic picture of the island and its people, stretching the abilities of soft focus, close ups and the incredible natural light to their maximum extents. Lacuesta's inspiration from what he has seen on San Fernando has certainly not let us down, as 'La leyenda del tiempo' is a beautifully captured and staged moment of reality for the cinema".

EUROPEANFILMS

"La leyenda del tiempo" is one of the freshest and most unforgettable proposals in national cinema. The trio of young debuting actors are Isaki Lacuesta's great discovery. A puff of fresh air".

Victoriano S. Alamo

CANARIAS 7

"Cravan vs. Cravan revealed a director with undoubtable talent. "La leyenda del tiempo" goes beyond this. It's the evidence that we have a FILM-MAKER. The most promising of young Spanish film directors."

Jaime Pena

BUENOS AIRES FILM FESTIVAL

"La leyenda del tiempo" becomes dazzling as it reproduces a life that feels more animate than life itself."

Horacio Bernades

PÁGINA 12 (Argentina)

****

"A great movie"

Diego Lerer

CLARIN (Argentina)

"The salt marshes, the smoke rings from a stealthy cigarette, the knife used by a tuna fisherman, the train permanently silenced by the ocean, the stone thrown into the murky water, the chills of flamenco singing and the dark shadow of a dead father who is still young. "La leyenda del tiempo", manages to erase the thick lines that separate reality from fiction through two moving characters."

Cristina Savall

EL PERIÓDICO