Country: Brazil
Year: 1966
Duration: 33'
A documentary about Maria Bethânia, Caetano Veloso's sister, at the very beginning of her career as a singer. "This film was made on a special occasion, when Bethânia came to Rio da Bahia to replace Nara Leao in the show Opinião. Bethânia's appearance, in that moment, in southern Rio, was a shock, it caused a shiver in the city. It was very important for me just then to film the show using an …clair 16 mm with a ten-minute cartridge. It was early 1966. The technical imperfections of the film made the images even more interesting, more intense. It was a different cinema that was surfacing in that moment. Bethânia was an inaugural film, the result was very strong, to me. And it left its mark on me, totally, because when the film came out it was received very poorly" (J. Bressane).
Biography
film director
Julio Bressane
Julio Bressane was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1946. As an adolescent, he frequented the haunts of the nascent Cinema Novo, establishing ties with Paulo Cezar Saraceni, Glauber Rocha and Leon Hirszman. At 19 years of age, he was assistant to Walter Lima Jr. for the film Menino de Engheno and then later to Fernando Campos for A Viagem. He debuted as a director in 1965 with the short film Lima Barreto: Trajetória. O Anjo Naceu and Matou a Familia e foi ao Cinema are received as a break with Cinema Novo. Cinema Marginal or "udigrudi". The term was never recognized by his esponents. In 1970, with Rogerìo Sganzerla and Helena Ignez, he founds the production house Belair, whose activity is brusquely interrupted by the military dictatorship, which forces the three founders into exile. Bressane lives a few years abroad, mainly in London and New York, he travels to Morocco and in Asia until 1973, when he returns to Brazil. Over the past few years, after a long period of ostracism by international festivals, his films have been presented with growing success in Taormina, Venice, Turin and Rotterdam. In 2002, the Torino Film Festival presented a complete retrospective of the Brazilian director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lima Barreto: Trajetória (1965-1966), Bethânia Bem de Perto (1966), Elis Regina (1966, film perduto), Cara a Cara (1967), O Anjo Nasceu (1969), Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969), Barão Olavo, o Horrível (1970), A Miss e o Dinosauro (1970, film perduto), Cuidado Madame (1970), Memórias de um Estrangulador de Louras/Memories of a Blonde Strangler (1971), Amor Louco/Crazy Love (1971), A Fada do Oriente (1972, film perduto), Lágrima Pantera (1972, film perduto), O Rei do Baralho (1973); Viagem Através do Brasil I (1973-1974), Viagem Através do Brasil II (1973-1974), Viagem Através do Brasil III (1973-1974-1975), O Monstro Caraíba - Nova História Antiga do Brasil (1975), Viola Chinesa - Meu Encontro com o Cinema Brasileiro (1975), A Agonia (1976), O Gigante da América (1976), Cidade Pagã (1979), Cinema inocente (1980), Tabu (1982), Brás Cubas (1985), Sob o Céu, Sob o Sol, Salvador (1987), Sermões - A História de António Vieira (1989), Quem seria o Feliz Conviva de Isadora Duncan? (1992), Galáxia Albina (1992), Infernalário: Logodédalo - Galaxia Dark (1993), O Cinema do Cinema - Criação e Recriação da Imagem no Filme Cinematográfico (1993), Antonioni - Hitchcock: A Imagen em Fuga (1993), As Canções que Vôce fez pra Mim (1994), O Mandarim (1995), Miramar (1997), São Jerônimo (1998), Dias de Nietzsche em Turim (2001), Nietszche in Nice, Filme de Amor (2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, montaggio e suono: Julio Bressane, Eduardo Escorel.
Cast: Maria Beth‚nia, Macalé, Edson Machado, Silvinha Telles, Mario Telles, Caetano Veloso, Rosinha de Valença.
Production company: David Neves, Julio Bressane, Eduardo Escorel .
Cast: Maria Beth‚nia, Macalé, Edson Machado, Silvinha Telles, Mario Telles, Caetano Veloso, Rosinha de Valença.
Production company: David Neves, Julio Bressane, Eduardo Escorel .