El cine en busca de sentido

The present volume comprises 13 essays on cineastes that have surpass the traditional limits of cinema, like commercial exploitation, genius and personages that not only took advantage this audiovisual mean to create spaces of reflection and opinion on the social situation of their times, but established a precedent when proposing forms of revealing reality with the clear objective of overcoming the barriers of space and time. Includes critical texts regarding the great productions of noted film directors such as Andrei Tarkovski, Roberto Rossellini, Robert Altman, Jacques Tati, Charles Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Jean Vigo, Manoel de Oliveira, Stanley Kubrick, François Truffaut and Sergei Eisenstein, from the personal perspective of one of the pupils of critic and producer Luis Alberto Álvarez.