Country: India
Year: 1994
Duration: 105'
Lisbon in the nineties. Two brothers and their sister, Maria. Maris is twenty years old but is unable to behave like the majority of people of her age. She almost never says what she thinks, nor asks for what she wants. She almost never tells the truth, although she never lies. She kills and does not say that she has killed. She suffers and does not say that she is suffering. She does not want to be alone, but does not seek company. She loves, not knowing who she loves. She was born in Lisbon and has never been and will never go to any other city. Maria always wants to be with her brothers, but that is not possible, for that is not how the world was organized. Maria wants to endure everything alone. In the end Maria makes a decision, brutal and definitive. It is not a happy story, but then sometimes neither is life.
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: Volker Tittel.
Costume designer: Rosa Almeida, Miguel Mendes.
Art director: João Calvário.
Sound: Vasco Pimentel.
Music: José Afonso, Giuseppe Verdi.
Editor: Vasco Pimentel, Teresa Villaverde.
Cast and characters: Maria de Medeiros (Maria), Marcello Urgeghe, Evgeni Sidihin, Laura del Sol, Mireille Perrier, Olimpia Carlisi.
Producer: Joaquim Pinto.
Production company: GER/Arion.
Director of photography: Volker Tittel.
Costume designer: Rosa Almeida, Miguel Mendes.
Art director: João Calvário.
Sound: Vasco Pimentel.
Music: José Afonso, Giuseppe Verdi.
Editor: Vasco Pimentel, Teresa Villaverde.
Cast and characters: Maria de Medeiros (Maria), Marcello Urgeghe, Evgeni Sidihin, Laura del Sol, Mireille Perrier, Olimpia Carlisi.
Producer: Joaquim Pinto.
Production company: GER/Arion.