The garden is a fertile trunk where everything fits, where everything is grafted and hybridized, which generates beautiful fronds where you can go to find inspiring and refreshing shadows. Its walls – real or figurative – enclose all the beauty that human beings can create and these walls retain it and preserve it from all the evils that lurk from the outside world. Throughout history, the arts have looked into the garden, they managed to break through their barriers and reflected in their creations everything that was happening within their limits. The cinema, from its origins, he quickly joined and began to generate an infinite number of films and scenes in which the garden acquired different degrees of prominence. "Beauty captivates. Jardins de cinema” is a selection of different views from different perspectives that the seventh art has been offering and which is added to the set of activities that speak of Valencia as the European Green Capital 2024, and affects the natural view of the city and its environmental policies. From the warm comfort of our armchair we can stroll through all these gardens and immerse ourselves in all the heterotopias that, the garden continually provides us. Everything has a place because, to chapter i to fi, the history of Humanity is the history of the constant attempts to recover paradise - a lost garden - and because all these paths converge in the same place: the garden as a cultural creation and as a reflection of our spirit and our time.
My uncle. Jacques Tati. 1958. France. 120′
Friday 18 of October, 19h.
The manger dog. Pilar Miro. 1996. Spain. 119′
Friday 25 of October, 19h.
Rivers and tides. Thomas Riedelsheimer. 2001. Germany/Finland/Great Britain/Canada. 90′
Friday 8 November 30, 19h.
Howard’s end. James Ivory. 1992. United Kingdom. 144′
Friday 22 of November, 19h.
Bearn or the doll's house. Jaime Chavarri. 1983. Spain. 118′
Friday 29 of November, 19h.
Only heaven knows. Douglas Sirk. United States.1955. 89′
Far from heaven. Todd Haynes. USA. 2002. 107′
Friday 6 of December. Double session 5pm.
Vatel. Roland Joffé. 2000. United Kingdom. 103′
Thursday 12 of December, 19h.
Labyrinth
Jim Henson. 1986. United States.101′
Friday 20 december, 19h.
