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A film by Paulo Rocha about Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

“I tried to film that period of his paintings in a different style, as if the camera was a brush in Amadeo’s hand with his colors and shapes”, Paulo Rocha

In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does a surprising “collage” about the Portuguese modernism, centered in Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Between the reproduction of the Orpheu years and the Futuristic Manifest, the installation of a exhibition in Gulbenkian and a juggling onirism, Paulo Rocha offers one of the most singular and fascinating visions of that world of colors and metals, so longing as anarchist, so soaring as insecure.Read More »

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When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy – the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one’s life, depending on decisions that are made early on.Read More »

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The initial project for this film, an adaptation of Alexandre Herculano’s O Bobo, became, over time, a reflection on literary work and its contemporary representation. The film reflects, as it develops, the passage of time (hassled by endless production difficulties, the moviemaking process was extremely long) and the transformation in Portuguese society in the years following the April 25th Revolution, in 1974. A fundamental film in Portuguese cinema of the last 30 years.Read More »

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This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).Read More »