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Released in 1964 and directed by Fernando Lopes, “Belarmino” charts the life and times of ex-boxer Belarmino Fragoso. It is considered one of the first films of the Novo Cinema Português, itself part of a wave of New Cinema movements sweeping the world in the 196os, and one of the key markers of a break from the previous traditions of Portuguese cinema. Lopes’s film was shown at the festivals of Pesaro and Salso-Poretta in Italy, garnered favorable reviews throughout Europe and won the Pretttio da Casa da Imprensa back in Portugal. Alongside fellow director Paulo Rocha and their mutual producer Antonio Cunha Telles, Fernando Lopes was soon acknowledged as one of the principal figures of Portuguese cinema in the 196os. Repressive censorship had meant that much of the latest, most innovative production in the world of film did not reach Portuguese screens and, like other films of the Novo Cinema Português, Belarmino achieved little popularity with a national audience ill-prepared for formally and thematically innovative cinema. Nonetheless, amongst the cognoscenti, Belarmino was recognized as a landmark in national film production. In his dictionary of Portuguese cinema, Jorge Leitão Ramos has this to declare about Lopes’s film:

[Tracing (via an interview conducted by the journalist Baptista-Bastos) the profile of the boxer Belarmino Fragoso, what this film really describes is the city of Lisbon and the harried breath of the country. Sharp images, harsh words, to hell with the true lies of this lonely man. The soggy grey atmosphere of Lisbon in the 196os is all there, dressed up in a tic and dispatched to ‘take a hiding, the anonymous lot of the emigrant. In shrill splinters, iron bars and jazz. No dreams, no illusions, just fatigue. And a montage that wants to speak out and a reality that will not let it. No pity, no exaltation, Belarmino is just a punch to the stomach]

from Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook
By Paul Melo e Castro

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This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. “Starting off from a fine novel by Carlos de Oliveira, Fernando Lopes doesn’t so mush reconstitute a story, but rather defines an atmosphere parallel to that which exists in the literary work. The erosion of time, the crumbling of an epoch, the decline of a stately home, the disintegration of emotions: the film version of A Bee in the Rain talks about all these things, using a language that is sparse and unpolished, fascinating and at the same time repulsive in its disturbing silence” (Lauro Antonio).

Biography
Portuguese filmmaker Fernando Lopes began his career as a newsreel editor’s trainee for the recently established Radio Televisão Portuguesa (RTP) in 1957. Prior to that, he had studied bookkeeping in Lisbon. In 1959, Lopes attended the London School of Film Technique on a grant from the Fundo de Cinema Nacional. He returned to RTP in 1961 and for the next two years was actively involved in their news services. After years of relative obscurity, Lopes made his first theatrically released feature, the docudrama Belarmino (1964), and for his efforts earned a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to spend three months Hollywood in 1965. It was not until 1968 that Lopes would begin shooting his next feature, Uma Abelha na Chuva/A Bee in the Rain. The film was finally edited and released in 1971. In addition to making feature films, Lopes remained active with RTP as a manager of Channel Two and with its Department of International Co-Productions; in 1970, Lopes served for the Centro Portuguêse de Cinema. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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