I wonder in how many city centres could you find fishermen gently plying their trade with a catch caught from under the gaze of the Royal Palace? It’s that sort of image that this conveys as it takes us on a distinctly tourism-free trip of this gorgeous city. It’s not a sightseeing exercise, it consists more of a few stand-alone sequences that gradually lead us to a young lad who hasn’t quite appreciated that leaving his freshly caught sprats on the quay beside him was merely going to invite the pesky gulls! An artist sketches a scene that causes another to abandon his catch so he can spruce h…
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