dissolved in another discourse different to that originally intended by means of a new approach in the editing proposal .
In Canción a una dama en la sombra the family images from the 1930s and 1940s are of Catalan families who lived a different post-war period to the protagonists , as they belonged to the upper middle class . At that time , a camera was the equivalent of three average salaries in Spain . For that reason , like in El gran vuelo , the images cause a fracture between image and word .
This reflection on the images is explicit in the film through the off-screen choir that shows that there are no images in movement of the protagonists of the film as they belonged to a social class that could not afford that luxury .
Oh ! Soledad , Armand , Eugenia , Albert ! How we would love to see your bodies moving ! To hear your voices ! Impossible . Our only consolation : Alas here : Images borrowed , robbed , orphaned . Anonymous faces that do not conceal the privileges of their class . And that despite everything , can illustrate an imaginary Sunday .
About Armand Pueyo Jornet
Sunday 19 th November 1939 To Soledad Tartera – Caldes de Montbui
Dear wife and children : like every Sunday , I will spend , in my imagination , a little while with you .
At the end of the 1920s , Soledad Tartera i Vilanova , from Caldes de Montbui , met Armand Pueyo Jornet , a young man from Vilanova who had arrived in Caldes de Montbui a few years previously to start a job as a foreman . After some time , they got engaged .
Armand was part of a group of friends and intellectuals who revolved around the figure of the Catalan painter and sculptor , Manolo Hugué , and he was known for his talent as a writer . As a result of this he began to write in the local newspapers : Farell and Esbarjo . In some of his political and philosophical articles he highlighted the importance of education for any labourer . He also advocated for the creation of a free school for labourers and illiterate women . He also apparently wrote some plays . But there is no record of them .
With the advent of the Civil War , the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( PSUC ) and the General Union of Workers ( UGT ) organised the Carlos Marx column , which initially had 2,000 troops . Armand enlisted in this column with other party comrades . His first destination was the Aragon Front .
The Republic defeat forced 453,000 Spaniards to take refuge in France . One of those men was Armand . It was the beginning of a hard journey in a foreign country of which the majority did not speak the language . In addition , they had to cope with the harsh attitude of the gendarmes , the colonialist troops and the French army .
At the end of March 1939 , the Spanish refugees settled in camps in different French departments : Argelès-sur-Mer , Saint-Cyprien and Barcarès , Judes in Septfonds , Sant Cebrià , Vernet d ’ Ariège , Agde and Rivesaltes .
Of the exile route that Armand Pueyo Jornet took , there are only letters from Septfonds and Vernet d ’ Ariège .
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