THE SUBSTANCE
by Lluìs Galter
synopsis
In 2010 a delegation from the company China Merchants Group turned up in Cadaqués, Dalí’s refuge, to take notes. Their intention was to build in their own country an exact replica of the town with 15,000 holiday homes. Through an eccentric pensioner, an expert in the history and inner workings of Cadaqués and a young Chinese businesswoman, who owns one of the China Merchant Group’s apartments, Lluís Galter builds a reflection that confuses dream and reality, documentary and fiction, original and copy, in a search for the mysterious “substance” that forms the identity of a town.
international title: | The Substance |
original title: | La substància |
country: | Spain |
year: | 2016 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Lluìs Galter |
film run: | 86' |
release date: | ES 2/12/2016 |
screenplay: | Lluìs Galter, Ivan Pintor, Irene Masdeu |
cinematography by: | Jordi Figueras |
film editing: | Lluìs Galter, Oriol Cid |
producer: | Sergi Moreno, Paco Poch, Tono Folguera |
production: | Lastor Media, Mallerich Films Paco Poch, Alina Film, CCMA |
distributor: | Paco Poch Cinema |