Until today, I had no clue who was Dani Karavan (1930—2021), although I must have been inside his creation, Straße der Menschenrechte (the Way of Human Rights) in Nuremberg. Now that I know about Passatges in Catalonia, I’d love to see it too.
This film follows Mr. Karavan on a journey to revisit his works in Israel and Europe. And man, he gets angry. The concept of wabi-sabi is clearly lost on Dani: in his view, all his masterpieces should last till the end of times. (Also, people must remember him forever, or at least that’s what he tells Wim Wenders, of all people.) But how could it be if their state of maintenance is, according to Dani, simply appalling?
Funny, touching, inspiring, a joy to watch and the first documentary in years that is not too long.
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