The antiquarian Jaime Romagosa is an embodiment of that terrific and unfashionable conviction that the old is more valuable than the new – and that books deserve some of that immortality we ourselves can no longer hope for. (Gerhard Meister)
In this film the farewell to books becomes a summing up of a life in a touchingly unostentatious way. (Beat Mazenauer)
Unusual – an intelligent as well as touching film. Though it's "only" the portrait of an antiquarian bookseller I understood that human greatness consists of culture and care. While watching I thought: That's why little Jaime Romagosa is a great man, but little Napoleon stays insignificant. (Andreas Sommer)
In this film the farewell to books becomes a summing up of a life in a touchingly unostentatious way. (Beat Mazenauer)
Unusual – an intelligent as well as touching film. Though it's "only" the portrait of an antiquarian bookseller I understood that human greatness consists of culture and care. While watching I thought: That's why little Jaime Romagosa is a great man, but little Napoleon stays insignificant. (Andreas Sommer)