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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.

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 3 min
Size: 	2.36 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/31CF36FE378595E/Mascara.de.Aco.Contra.Abismo.Azul.1989.1080p.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6B829B9EFAA5C97/Mascara.de.Aco.Contra.Abismo.Azul.1989.1080p.ENG_02_.srt

Language(s):Portuguese, French
Subtitles:English, Hardcoded portuguese for french parts

The post Paulo Rocha – Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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.

Part 1. Manoels Destinies.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	55 min 3 s
Size: 	468 MiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	512x384 
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https://nitro.download/view/4D115C582CD85DE/Part_1._Manoels_Destinies.mkv https://nitro.download/view/243210EC1822718/Part_2._The_Picnic_of_Dreams.mkv https://nitro.download/view/97AC08DBE27CF66/Part_3._The_Little_Chess_Champion.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raoul Ruiz – L’Île aux merveilles de Manoël AKA Manoel on the Island of Marvels (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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.

1.88GB | 2h 03m | 720×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/410AE67A56DAE2B/O.Bobo.1987.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

https://tezfiles.com/file/e9df78abb3f23/O.Bobo.1987.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:Portuguese,English,French

The post José Álvaro Morais – O Bobo AKA The Jester (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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).

But this film for children is among his most complex works, hard to grasp in its totality. Often it can seem an arbitrary collection of free-associational images and words, bordering on nonsense. But attentive viewers will have the strong sense that there is method behind this near-madness. Otherwise, it could never produce the intense emotions it so clearly offers. Ruiz’s obsessions from film to film bind the fragments together – within a single work and across projects – and the emotion comes from the totally unexpected forking taken within a well-worn territorial map.

Writing or filming for children can sometimes bring a person straight to the source of their art. Having to perceptibly adapt their style confronts them with what must be included. Manoel leaves us with the essential Ruiz, the audio-visual companion to his extraordinary book Poetics of Cinema. Its dizzying narrative fold-over-fold methodology creates a labyrinthine temporal structure.

http://nitroflare.com/view/C0D4AA7E814274D/L_Ile_aux_merveilles_de_Manoel_%28Raoul_Ruiz%2C_1984%29.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/D5C968CE2435035/1_Les_destins_de_Manuel.srt
http://nitroflare.com/view/6BC974E88DA9F6B/2_Le_pique_nique_des_reves.srt
http://nitroflare.com/view/5DEA4AD41C2CF5E/3_La_petite_championne_d_echecs.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raoul Ruiz – L’Île aux merveilles de Manoël AKA Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.