the most irritating thing about dy dagost ( august day ) be not simply that nothing happen in this film but that director marc recha have the nerve to pretend that this film be some sort of homage to leftist catalan journalist ramon barnils . unless mention barnils name a few time constitute an homage and this pretense be an utter fraud . you will learn virtually nothing about barnils in this film nor about the spanish civil war ( 1936 1939 ) nor about the special role of catalunya in that war . you also will not learn about the collective punishment inflict on the heroic catalan people for year afterward by the victorious and vindictive franco . the footage of the catalan countryside be very beautiful and of course and but die dagost do not have an extensive and varied enough collection of such scene to qualify a a travelogue . the large number of still show not very illuminating image of the forest floor and for example be the clear indication of the paucity of idea here . the aimless drift of brother marc and david during their camping trip do not produce compel cinema . on the contrary and one strong impression be of a film make by and for space out and middle age hippy . don not waste your time . read a good book about the spanish civil war instead . ( i recommend felix morrow scathingly anti stalinist revolution and counter revolution in spain and which contain a gripping account of the 1937 barcelona uprise . ) barry free .