http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0616,hoberman,72900,20.html

One of the most concentrated acts of imaginative filmmaking in years and a tempestuous contender for the richest found-footage feature ever made, this Cuban faux memoir by Carlos Molinero and Lola Salvador dips in and out of the lost consciousness of a fictional scientist, freedom fighter, and vanished father, roaming around the history of the early century as it climaxed with the advent of the Manhattan Project. Unlikely nexuses are formed between fin de siécle nudie postcards, the history of Havana, Orson Welles, nuclear physics, and the home movies of countless forgotten childhoods. A rousing, intoxicating blast of movie-movie enigmatism. M.A.

New York Times

 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/science/23essa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

It really is a quantum film

New York Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/movies/25trib.html?ex=1303617600&en=e33ef351e389766c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

…Told in vintage photographs and newsreels, the film is a moody, abstract meditation on the mysterious relationship between photography and memory.

Cinematical: http://podcasts.cinematical.com/2006/04/24/tribeca-review-the-mist-in-the-palm-trees/

The Mist in the Palm Trees is an aggressively unconventional, non-narrative film that at first blush seems to be a ramshackle biography of a fictional photographer-physicist named Santiago Bergson. Under that surface, though, The Mist in the Palm Trees is concerned above all else with memory, and the role images play in creating and maintaining it. Like Chris Marker's similarly-themed Sans soleil, the film is constructed from a combination of stills and moving images.

From these disparate sources, directors Carlos Molinero and Lola Salvador create a sense of life and loves for their character, thus creating a series of images that -- done over two years of editing -- casts doubt on the reliability of images in general.

 
…The directors seem to have allowed themselves to experience the thrill of purely rhythmic editing, and the power it can wield over an audience.

 …The Mist of Palm Trees remains a brave, fascinating film, and a stunning achievement in research and editing as well.

NY Mosaico: http://www.nymosaico.com/events/details.aspx?id=5386&cid=4

…Using photographs, home movies, newsreels, and documentary footage, Molinero and Salvador manipulate found images to trace the nature of memory, the purposes of image-making, and the

mystery that the first fully photographed-and perhaps most violent-century still holds for us.

 

NY Mosaico: http://www.nymosaico.com/articles/profile_details.aspx?id=683&cid=4&tid=4

I still don't know whether this film is fiction or not. It uses archival film footage, still photographs, animations, and some original footage to create a ballet of imagery and sound -- various types of music and disembodied voices -- to tell a biography in a completely non-linear, piecemeal fashion. The editing (José Recuenco, Renato Sanjuán), which includes the music and sound (Ricardo Palacín, Wildtrack), and research (Patricia Campo and Maite Bermúdez) are mostly amazing…

 

... It's a thinking piece. An attack on the senses and on the brain. It can stimulate, but you have to be prepared for the wild barrage of ideas and the lack of a clear narrative and not necessarily expect real answers.

Pop Matters: http://www.popmatters.com/film/features/060501-tribecafilmfestival.shtml

Also exploring the complications of self-deception, Carlos Molinero and Lola Salvador's The Mist in the Palm Trees (La Niebla en las Palmeras, Spain 2006) is a "found" footage-based film. Revolving around memory and the deceptive power of imagery, it recalls the time-jumbled nostalgia of La Jetée or the tongue-in-cheek, retro-film-dreams of Guy Maddin. The story is surely original. .. …film wins you over with the strength of its convictions.