On Wednesday June 10, 2026, Pope Leo The complex architecture of the basilica, which has become the symbol of Barcelona and a tourist attraction (with nearly 5 million visitors per year), has long represented an enigma for architects.
Marc Jampolsky provides the keys in a documentary which alternates interviews with specialists, archives and spectacular images shot at an altitude of more than 150 m during the construction of the last two towers.
Collage of styles and eras
Navigating between past and present, the film attempts to identify the paradoxical personality of Gaudi: a conservative, attached to Catalan and Catholic traditions, but also an avant-garde artist with daring ideas; a man who was both humble, refusing honors and media coverage, and endowed with excessive ambition for the realization of his great work.
Photographs of him being rare, here he is played by an actor evolving in his virtually reconstituted workshop, a “cave” cluttered with drawings and plaster models that he hardly left during the last years of his life. A fire, which occurred around ten years after his death, during the civil war, unfortunately damaged his precious archives, making the mission of his successors difficult.
Today, they are unraveling the mysteries of Gaudi’s original structures, using reconstructions of his models and sophisticated modeling software. The study of his other creations, houses or religious buildings, reveals his creative process, a clever collage of styles and periods, whose sources of inspiration come sometimes from art books sometimes from his attentive observation of nature, in particular the reliefs of his native region, around Reus. A thorough and fascinating investigation.
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