Country: Portugal
Year: 1998
Duration: 55'
An edited video created by the director of O Som da Terra a Tremer and Frágil Como o Mundo for the festivities in Porto celebrating the maestro's 90th birthday.
"I saw Oliveira's entire opus in a glance. It seemed that all his films were part of a single whole. Without much reflection, everything seemed to unite: a shot of Vale Abraão echoed one of O Pão. In Francisca's theater box I heard Ana Plácido's footsteps in O Dio de Desespero. The dances were linked in the lights of the ballrooms and the rhythms of the waltzes. The people's glances, so distant in the films, acquired a meaning in the moment they were joined together. I think Oliveira is a great composer" (Rita Azevedo Gomes).
Biography
film director
Rita Azevedo Gomes
(Lisbon, portugal, 1952) Since her first feature film, The Sound of the Earth Shaking (1990), she has developed an independent approach to cinema. Her filmography includes Fragile as the World (2001), The 15th Stone (2004), A Woman’s Revenge (2011), Correspondences (2016), The Portuguese Woman (2018), Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (2019), co-directed with Pierre Léon and Jean-Louis Schefer. She also develops artistic projects in theatre and opera. Film programmer at the Cinemateca Portuguesa.
FILMOGRAFIA
O Som da Terra a Tremer (1990), Frágil Como o Mundo (2001), Altar (video, 2003), A Conquista de Faro (cm, 2005), A 15ª Pedra (doc, 2007), A Colecção Invisível (2009), A Vingança de Uma Mulher (2012), Correspondências (2016), A Portuguesa (2018), Danses macabres, squelettes et autres fantaisies (coregia Pierre Léon e Jean-Louis Schefer, doc, 2019), O Ah! das coisas, 6 de Abril 2020 (cm, 2020), O Trio em Mi Bemol (2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes.
Editor: Rui del Negro (AZUL S.P.I.).
Telecinema: Jorge Lopes (ANIM).
Sound: Carlos Ferreira (Digitalmix).
Production company: Cinemateca Portuguesa/Museu do Cinema.
Editor: Rui del Negro (AZUL S.P.I.).
Telecinema: Jorge Lopes (ANIM).
Sound: Carlos Ferreira (Digitalmix).
Production company: Cinemateca Portuguesa/Museu do Cinema.