In this documentary, using fragments from Falses memòries de Salvador Orlan, and other works, we wanted to let the writer himself tell us important events of his life. It is a memory reconstructed with details, instants, some unfinished remembrances which allow us to have a high-relieve vision of Villalonga. Elegiac in some parts (the description of his mother, for instance), contradictory in others (his relationship with his father, the Civil War), the documentary shows us the construction of a character which is not totally complete, as he wanted to hide his real face behind masks. In some way, this literary man who creates new realities wins the game against the true Villalonga. That is why these images also want to be a recreation of fiction, or several fictions, the ones that he draw during his life. But where we really get to know a novelist, as always happens, is in his own work. Everything else is only biography.

Real Video (25 minutes)
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Faust

Faust Theatrical adaptation from a part of Bearn. Fragment from Real Video of 20 minutes of a dialog between Toni and the priest, one of most important parts of the piece. 

Synopsis of the piece:
It was initially a script, a synthesis of the first part of the novel Bearn: «Sota el signe de Faust» (Under the sign of Faust). The second part, «La pau regna a Bearn» (Peace in Bearn), has its theatrical correspondent in Filemó i Baucis (Filemó and Baucis). With this method, the author wanted to free characters from authorial omniscience and omnipresence, allowing them to speak for themselves. The piece starts ten years after don Toni and Xima’s escape to Paris, she’s the seduced and seductive niece. All the story is ambivalent. The lovers go to the preview of Faust, the opera by Gounod. She’s entering triumphantly the great world as he tries to recover, as Faust, his lost youth. The scandal at Bearn, a small village, is enormous. The return of the master proves his own vital failure. His wife, so conscientiously, decides the convenience of a separation. They live in separated houses. But peace will be disturbed by Xima’s arrival. She’s also ruined and defeated, and wants to get everything she can from her ex-lover. In order to do it, she tries to turn back to Paris with her uncle to attend Faust again. He does not want to go, but he offers her, instead, a diamante necklace, a family inheritance. It is the price of her last favour —which we can not see in the drama—, synthesized by Toni in these words: "I did not like it very much". This sentence brings a new vital meaning for him. He can now let behind the faustic feeling. Reason and consciousness —he is now a mature man— make him take notice of himself. The first step is the reconciliation with his wife, which comes naturally after a stormy car ride in the master’s lands. But he wants a deep change in his life, and for that he starts writing his own memories to recover lost time. This memory of a life time will become his protection, his safe harbour, forever.