Angel Torralba

  • Alfonso Cuarón – Cuarteto para el fin del tiempo AKA Quartet for the End of Time (1983)

    1981-1990Alfonso CuarónMexicoShort Film

    A man sits alone in his apartment. Why does he watch as his goldfish washes down the drain? Why does he blow up balloons then release them out the window for no one to see? And for whom does he take out his clarinet to play ‘Quartet for the End of Time’?.

    Shot in 16mm, while Alfonso Cuarón was a film student, Cuarteto Para El Fin Del Tiempo is a meditation on isolation and a young man’s withdrawal from the outside world. Using very few words, Cuarón relies on the power of the image to narrate the film, for which there was no written script:Read More »

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