
Title: Ciudad Sin Sueño
Year: 2025
Running Time: 97′
Country: Spain
Directed by: Guillermo Galoe
Written by: Guillermo Galoe and Víctor Alonso-Berbel
Starring: Antonio Fernández Gabarre; Bilal Sedraoui; Jesús Fernández Silva; Luis Bertolo; Francisca Jiménez; Felisa Romero Molina; Pura Salazar
Review by Guifré Margarit i Contel | 28 June 2025
Unapologetically more atmospheric than plot-driven, this look into the lives of gipsy families in the biggest self- made and managed city in Europe, on the outskirts of Madrid, breaks boundaries with its unconventional mix of photography using natural lighting but also phone, together with heavy filtering (present in multiple sequences with various colour tints).
But precisely, it is this lack of narrative depth that affects the movie most deeply. Subject matters such as the intergenerational and ideological clashes between son and father, father and grandfather, or the grandfather’s conflict with drugs and the gang that deals them are underdeveloped, while other topics like the clash of this community against urban life are practically ignored.
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