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Cities of dreams

2010

The cinema is fantastical and irresponsible. Its buildings are designed as whims, without even having to submit to the test of equilibrium or consistency or to the most elementary laws of physics. The screen can happily give itself up to the imagination, for nobody will ever call it to account. This condition, which makes it so elusive, also brings it closer to our dreams and longings. The more inconsistent it is, the stronger it becomes as an undying document of all that was produced by the ingenuity of the twentieth century. As a result, examples of fanciful architecture have found their way into films on many occasions, serving to delight architects without subjecting them to the slighte…