El cielo gira 2004

New York Times: A fastidious tone poem, meticulously composed and deliberately paced. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Without relying on melodrama or nostalgia, Alvarez embraces the inescapable nature of impermanence. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Instead of expressing sorrow for a vanishing way of life, "The Sky Turns'' exudes a clear and weightless joy. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: In the beautifully com posed documentary "The Sky Turns," filmmaker Mercedes Alvarez returns after 35 years to Aldealsenor, the remote Spanish village where she was born. Read more

Andrew Schenker, Village Voice: Nothing speaks more elegantly to the bewilderment of the locals than a long shot of newly built windmills lining a distant hilltop while a villager, made tiny by Alvarez's framing, looks on in the foreground, swallowed up by the forces of history. Read more