ON THE BLUE SUMMER EVENINGS
PAR LES SOIRS BLEUS D'ÉTÉ
Documentary, Experimental, Short,
Spain
2024
Runtime, min
10
Director:
Xavier Guàrdia
Selections and Awards:
REVIEWS:
This film walks the fine line between homage and reinterpretation. It doesn’t just illustrate Rimbaud, it internalizes him. The nature footage isn’t pastoral - it’s haunted. Which fits: Rimbaud was never just romantic.
Michel Veloso
There was a part where the trees were just swaying and the poem was talking about footsteps… I don’t know why, but I cried. It reminded me of being a kid. Of quiet summers. Of someone I miss.
Grigory Kopic
I didn’t know the poem, but this film made me feel like I’d lived in it. The mix of calm landscapes and sudden city noise - it was like dreaming with one eye open. Made me want to go outside and just breathe.
Mercedes Freire
This is slow cinema at its lyrical peak. The way the voiceover drips into the landscape - it’s like Tarkovsky and Marker walking through Rimbaud’s mind. Thank you for letting silence speak.
Daniel Klinke
You didn’t adapt a poem. You made a poem with light and sound. The pacing felt like a breath between lines. A comma in the wind. Gorgeous, restrained, aching.
Vlad Skvortsoff
This felt like a cinematic translation of poetry - not just Rimbaud’s words, but his rhythm, his silence, his contradictions. The visual editing mirrored enjambment.
Ana Luis