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FEATURES
THE FACE YOU DESERVE |
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The Face You Deserve Franscico, behave! I know it´s your birthday, you are thirty now, it´s carnival, you’ve dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate.
Director Miguel Gomes Script Miguel Gomes, Manuel Mozos, Telmo Churro Cast José Airosa / FRANCISCO; Gracinda Nave / MARTA; Sara Graça / VERA; Miguel Barroso / CARLOS; João Nicolau / NICOLAU; Ricardo Gross / GROSS; Rui Catalão / TRAVASSOS; António Figueiredo / CÓPI; Manuel Mozos / HARRY; Carloto Cotta / TEXAS; Pedro Caldas / SIMÕES Cinematography Rui Poças Sound Vasco Pimentel First Assistant Director Bruno Lourenço Continuity Jorge Cramez Decoration Luisa Perdigto Wardrobe Silvia Grabowski Make Up Emmanuele Févre Illustrations João Fazenda Music Mariana Ricardo Production Manager Ângela Cerveira Editing Sandro Aguilar, Miguel Gomes Sound Editing Miguel Martins, Miguel Gomes Mix Vasco Pimentel Producers João Figueiras, Sandro Aguilar Production O SOM E A FÚRIA
INDIELISBOA 2004 | Critics Award; Best Photography for Portuguese Movie Award
(...) Belfort anticipating the big European festivals, stilling away the international premiere of A Cara Que Mereces, by the Portuguese director Miguel Gomes. Having the problem of closing itself in the unique place and in children’s games, sometimes amusing, sometimes vain, this first film may probably not be up to all the promises of the initial sung sequence, magnificent. But among it’s numerous gems we find a fabulous image, that will remain as the most beautiful image of the Entre Vues Festival of Belfort: the camera goes down on a sleeping man body, unveils the colourful sleeping pills that fall of his hand, continues do descend, finds them again on the ground and slides through the carpet where wool monsters fight, and then darkens and submerges in the dream.
(...) Superior beauty of the first film by the former cinema critic Miguel Gomes. Known for his short films, Gomes signs with A Cara Que Mereces a Portuguese style Peter Pan, between Kitano, Céline and Julie and the seven dwarfs (without Snow White). Consistent on its radical choices, the film develops a sound and visual fantasy that has already seduced, from Portugal to Brazil, more than one writer of the Cahiers (...). Gomes says that he creates a loving but not sentimental cinema, one more reason to talk in more detail about A Cara Que Mereces, for instance at the moment of its premiere in France.
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BEHIND THE CLOUDS |
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Behind the Clouds Paulo is a 12 year old boy who lives in Lisbon with his mother. One day, he finds a bundle of photographs, which include pictures of the grandfather he’s never met. He makes up his mind to go and look for him, even if he has to deceive his mother to do so. With one of the pictures as his guide he goes to the Alentejo and there, at last, meets his grandfather Miguel, an eccentric and solitary man. Together, they set off in an old car, which only their imagination is able to start, on a fantastic journey to unlock the family’s secrets and sorrows…It’s a film about redemption and family ties; a film for all ages able to dream. A fantastic journey to unlock the family’s secrets and sorrows…
Nicolau Breyner Miguel Salgado Ruben Leonardo Paulo Sofia Grillo Mother Graciano Dias Father Carmen Santos Irene José Eduardo Director Jorge Queiroga Script Jennifer Field Cinematography Amilcar Carrajola Art Director João Martins SoundFrancisco Veloso Editing João Braz Original Music Nuno Malo Production Filmes do Tejo II Maria João Mayer + François d’Artemare 2006 / 1:85 / color / Dolby Digital / 90’ / original language: Portuguese 2007 2008 (among others) 2009
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DOCUMENTARIES
| ALEXANDRE O’NEILL by Fernando Lopes |
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Alexandre O`Neill It is a personal homage. It is not a biography, nor is it a critical analysis of the poetic work of Alexandre O’Neill. That has been done and redone. It is, above all, about the creative, sentimental and love experiences of a poet, one of the biggest of the Portuguese twentieth century, with whom I have had the privilege of consorting (and of living the adventures of his life, even if, like O’Neill said, “the adventure always ends in a cake shop”). Fernando Lopes
Special participation Rogério Jacques, Rui Morisson (voice), António Tabucchi, Helmut Wohl, Gérard Castello Lopes, João Botelho, Afonso O’neill, Mário Cesariny De Vasconcelos
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| PINA BAUSCH |
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Pina Bausch Lissabon Wuppertal Lisboa Lisbon, open city, bright and warm, receives Pina Bausch and her Company, They arrive for a three week residence, accepting the invitation of Festival dos 100 Dias: the creation of Ein Neues Stϋck von Pina Bausch. They arrive with their eyes and ears wide open, their veins well tempered, very attentive to the signs, the glitters, the sounds, the scents and the emotions that the city suggests to them along the way. Afterwards, with the special evocations of their own lives, now mingled with the air of Lisbon, it will come that very rare hour in which all of this and all of the rest, conducted by the geniality of Pina Bausch, will assume a body of it’s own, a new soul. That will have the name: “a new play by Pina Bausch”. Or something else. And that one will be beautiful: MASURCA FOGO. Fernando Lopes
Cinematography Manuel Costa e Silva Camera Operators Miguel Ceitil & Manuel Costa e Silva Grip Operator Carlos Sequeira Assistant Director Fátima Ribeiro Videographer Miguel Ceitil Editing Fernando Lopes Editing Assistant Fátima Ribeiro & Miguel Ceitil Executive Producer Rogério Ceitil Producer Gabriela Cerqueira Special Collaboration Maria João Seixas Director Fernando Lopes
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