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Among the lesser known of the major art-house talents working today, Spain’s José Luis GuerÃn (In the City of Sylvia), in recent years, has moved beyond his work in non-fiction into a set of films that blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction. In The Academy of Muses, his vividly pleasurable and intellectually invigorating latest, GuerÃn introduces a university professor—played by real-life philology professor Raffaele Pinto—who teaches a class on the muse in literature and art as a means of romancing his female students. His students, however, soon establish their own agency, becoming shapers of the fiction that unfolds. A critical darling at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, The Academy of Muses is fully in thrall of the ideas, language, and feminine beauty that together comprise this learned film’s classically inspired subject.
For more on The Academy of Muses, read Director of Curatorial Affairs Michael J. Anderson’s latest blog post here.
Director José Luis GuerÃn 2015 Spain 92 minutes NR DCP
