17° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Retrospective - Portuguese Cinema (1970-1999)
A idade maior
by Teresa Villaverde
Country: Portugal
Year: 1991
Duration: 120'
Portugal, 1972-73. The years when Portugal was withdrawn from the rest of the world and men were forced to move to almost unknown countries. In these countries, men died and changed. Alex, though only ten, remembers and wants to tell his story. His father had been living in Africa and though he had returned, no-one had seen him. His mother then went to fetch him home. Now there is no-one in the home. Only Alex.
Biography
film director
Teresa Villaverde
Teresa Villaverde (Lisbon, Portugal, 1966) began her career as an actress, cowriter and codirector at the theatre of the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She appeared as an actress in À Flor do Mar (João César Monteiro, 1986), worked as an assistant to Paulo Rocha and as a cowriter with José Álvaro Morais and João Canijo. Since the 1990s she has directed her own films including A Idade Maior which screened at the Berlinale in 1991. She made her international breakthrough in 1998 with Os Mutantes and in 2001 presented at Venice Água e Sal. In 2010 she founded her own production company Alce Filmes. With Colo, selected in competition at the Berlinale, participated in 2017 at the Torino Film Festival. In 2018 the Torino Film Festival presented also O Termómetro de Galileu.
FILMOGRAFIA
A Idade Maior (1991), Três Irmãos (1994), O Amor Não me Engana (cm, doc., tv, 1996), Os Mutantes (1998), Água e Sal (2001), A Favor da Claridade (doc., 2003), Visions of Europe (ep. Cold Wa(te)r, 2004), Transe (2006), Cisne (2011), Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013), Ponts de Sarajevo (I ponti di Sarajevo, ep. Sara e a Sua Mãe, cm, 2014), Paris 15/16 (cm, 2016), Colo (2017), O Termómetro de Galileu (doc., 2018), Six Portraits of Pain (2019).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Teresa Villaverde.
Director of photography: Elfi Mikesch.
Art director: Miguel Nendes, Jeanne Waltz.
Sound: Vasco Pimentel.
Music: Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Editor: Manuela Viegas, Vasco Pimentel.
Cast and characters: Ricardo Colares (Alex), Vincent Gallo (Mario), Teresa Roby (Manuela), Maria de Medeiros (Barbara), Joaquim de Almeida (Pedro).
Producer: João Pedro Bénard da Costa.
Production company: Invicta Filmes.
Director of photography: Elfi Mikesch.
Art director: Miguel Nendes, Jeanne Waltz.
Sound: Vasco Pimentel.
Music: Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Editor: Manuela Viegas, Vasco Pimentel.
Cast and characters: Ricardo Colares (Alex), Vincent Gallo (Mario), Teresa Roby (Manuela), Maria de Medeiros (Barbara), Joaquim de Almeida (Pedro).
Producer: João Pedro Bénard da Costa.
Production company: Invicta Filmes.
