Feature Film: Valdes as a Pretext

Documentary film presented at Cannes Film Festival. Manolo Valdés (Valencia, 1942) opens the doors of his studio in New York for visitors to witness the creative process of one of his works .

A film directed by Javier Molins art critic who has followed this author to over a year through scenarios as attractive as the Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley , the New York artist's studio in Union Square, workshops Madrid or the streets of the Hague. The viewer can see the process of creating a work before the cameras , go Broadway Avenue across 12 sculptures located on this avenue , attend an opening in The Hague Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands or through the different rooms of the Renaissance castle Chambord . All seasoned with the subjective character ringside as the writer Mario Vargas Llosa (who first recited in public poems he has written for the Ladies of Barajas made ​​by Manolo Valdés ); the director of the Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza , Guillermo Solana ; the president of the board of the Reina Sofia Museum Guillermo de la Dehesa ; Professor of Art History, Kosme of Barañano ; the editor of the magazine "Art in America" ​​, David Ebony ; Marlborough Gallery director , Pierre Levai ; Carlos Marzal poet , artist Claudio Bravo or various international collectors. If works continuously appear Valdés quotes the great masters of art history in this documentary is the main protagonist Valdes himself