Over the Rainbow ( Sobre el arcoiris )

Over the Rainbow (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sobre el arcoiris
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Malaga Spanish Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Gonzalo López-Gallego

Written By:
Gonzalo López-Gallego
José David Montero

Actors:
Jhonny Andrews
Emily Behr
Frank Brückner
Luis Callejo
Martha Fessehatzion
Manuel S. Ramos
Alfredo Reyes
Salvador Sánchez
J.F. Sebastian
Isabelle Stoffel

Synopsis:

A young man, 'Ludwig', buys a video-recorder and heads for Berlin to make "my film". We see events as he records them, as he falls for a prostitute, considers suicide and starts thinking of his camera as a person. When he jokes that he's like the protagonist of 'American Psycho' and invites two students to be killed for a movie he's making, the line between fact and fiction starts to blur dangerously...

A man buys a video camera and decides to travel to another city, adopting a new personality: Ludwig. He begins to record his trip more and more obsessively until it turns into a fictional story. Actor, director, cameraman, victim, assassin..

A Spanish young man buys a video camera and travels to Berlin. All that we see are his recordings. As he sinks deeper into a mental breakdown (whose motives remain unexplained), he begins to consider the camera as a mirror that excludes everything else, that is to say, he only exists and acts for its camera. When he decides to abandon reality and to turn his life into fiction, to transform his video diary into a thriller, we enter the dangerous territory of Powell's "Peeping Tom" and Haneke's "Benny's video". "Sobre el arco iris" is hugely ambitious. It deals with our erotic/schizophrenic rapports with images, the blurring lines between reality and fiction and the ultimately vampire nature of cinema, both for the film-makers and the audience. It borrows from the masterpieces cited above, as well as from Dogma movement and even "The Blair Witch Project" (in the sense of trying to scare us by making us think: "what if this was real?"). However, the real source of inspiration is 80's Spanish underground cinema masterpiece, "Arrebato", with its idea of a vampire camera that steals the souls of film-makers and actors alike. These ideas have clearly inspired the scene where the main character fakes his suicide and then begins to film as if he wasn't there and the camera had taken a life of its own.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 March, 2009.