Year: 2000
Duration: 21'
Luisa, a 50-years-old divorcee and perfect cook, has Tuesday's off. Tuesdays are when Luisa shows the zoo to her grand-son or invites her friend round for dinner. Her friend who only likes sad men. Until the birth of her son, Luisa was a ballerina. She stopped dancing. She had to replace her sense of life with the sense of humor. Very corrosive, very dark humor. But one Tuesday, she finds a reason to dance again…
"Five Tuesdays, one after another, in a life that ranges from 'all little girls want to be ballerinas' to 'the height of ridiculousness is a hippopotamus in toe shoes' (even Disney knew this). Everything is funny here, with a mean humor that is typical of people who aren't at ease with their own body. You can pretend everything's fine because you have had the time to learn to avoid past hurts, to distract yourself, to forget it for a moment. You can pretend to be courageous, funny, brave. Every now and then you can use cynical expressions to defend yourself. Except when a girl asks you to dance, then you find yourself trapped by the drama that you had been able to hide" (Jeanne Waltz).
Biography
film director
Jeanne Waltz
Jeanne Waltz (Switzerland, 1962) was a member of a small German independent theater company. Since 1989 she has lived and mainly in Portugal and worked as director and screenwriter.
FILMOGRAFIA
La Couveuse (cm, 1995), Morte macaca (cm, 1997), O que te quero (cm, 1998), La Reine du coq à l'âne (cm, 1999), As Terças da Bailarina Gorda (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director and editor: Jeanne Waltz.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Jeanne Waltz, Paulo Guilherme Santos.
Director of photography: Paulo Ares.
Art director: Gilles Grange.
Costume designer: Rute Correia.
Sound: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Carvalho.
Music: Bernardo Sassetti.
Cast: Luisa Salguireo, Ana Bustorff, Francisco Nascimento, Marcello Urgueghe, Marina Nabais, André Neto, Cãndido Ferreira, Vanessa Dinger, Marta Cerqueira, Claúdia Semedo, Catarina Maruã.
Production company: Joaquim Pinto per Filmebase, Av. Eva 51, 5° D.to. 1700-165 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +351 21 8404677, fax +351 21 8489801, e-mail jpinto@filmebase.pt
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Jeanne Waltz, Paulo Guilherme Santos.
Director of photography: Paulo Ares.
Art director: Gilles Grange.
Costume designer: Rute Correia.
Sound: Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Carvalho.
Music: Bernardo Sassetti.
Cast: Luisa Salguireo, Ana Bustorff, Francisco Nascimento, Marcello Urgueghe, Marina Nabais, André Neto, Cãndido Ferreira, Vanessa Dinger, Marta Cerqueira, Claúdia Semedo, Catarina Maruã.
Production company: Joaquim Pinto per Filmebase, Av. Eva 51, 5° D.to. 1700-165 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. +351 21 8404677, fax +351 21 8489801, e-mail jpinto@filmebase.pt