During a few languid summer days in Strasbourg a young foreigner spends his time sitting at an outdoor cafe sketching the figures of the women around him patiently waiting for his lost love Sylvia. Then one fine afternoon he thinks he spots her and sets off through the city to confront his memory. Featuring standout performances from Xavier Lafitte and Pilar L''pez de Ayala Jos'' Luis Guer''-n's lovely exceedingly graceful work is an homage to cinema painting love and women. A cult classic on the festival circuit In The City Of Sylvia eloquently captures the feeling of being in love with love and the youthful sense of a world filled with an almost limitless sensuality.
In 16th Century Spain a gifted young playwright and soldier, Lope de Vega returns to Madrid from the war. Filled with ambition, eager to live, to write and to make his dreams a reality he is forced to work as a humble copyist. Lope falls for his bosss ravishing daughter Elena but must keep the relationship secret. But Elena has another secret: she's already married. When Lope finds out, he asks her to end her marriage and make their love public. Elena refuses. Wounded, he is tempted to play along with the one woman who can bring his vision to the stage, but his passion burns stronger than his ambition, and he publicly exposes the hypocrisy of Elena and her father. Furious, they accuse him of slander. With the Law on his heels, Lope must outrun danger and overcome adversity to clear his name. Only his rediscovered childhood friend, the beautiful Isabel, can help him. As they travel battle along the road to freedom together, Lope discovers his own true love. But fate is not yet finished with him...
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