'The Year of the Discovery,' the first solo full-length feature by Spanish writer-director Luis Lopez Carrasco, debuted in the Rotterdam competition. THR's review says the quasi-documentary 'blurs categories and chronologies to immersive effect.'
"What year is this?!" exclaimed Agent Cooper at the end of Twin Peaks. And similarly disorienting temporal dislocations are now emerging as an intriguing trend in artistic cinema, especially in Europe.
This may be Lopez Carrasco's first solo directorial effort of feature duration, but he previously co-directed collective project Los Materiales and then was responsible for 2013's widely-screened 67-minute. Presented through the ironic 20-20 lens of hindsight, the mid-lengther plunges the audience into the noisy milieu of a 1982 house-party thrown to celebrate the general election victory of the Socialist Party.
There's no doubting Lopez Carrasco and company's empathetic interest in their protagonists, their valorization of organized labor, and their desire to shine a light into semi-forgotten aspects of very recent European history — events which have self-evident applications to similar cities all around the world, arguably now more than ever.
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