20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Julio Bressane

Dias de Nietzsche em Turim

Dias de Nietzsche em Turim

Country: Brazil
Year: 2001
Duration: 85'


Nietzsche spent the last days of his life in Turin. The city appealed to him very much, he appreciated the wide avenues and the severe lines of its buildings. He wrote his thoughts down in a notebook which he always carried around with him. His notes are a series of observations, descriptions, aphorisms, ideas, letters. The film begins with his arrival in Turin on April 7, 1888. After having taken the wrong train, the philosopher arrives first in Genoa, where he buys a ticket for Turin. After moving into a small room with his books and a piano, he spends his days writing and taking walks.

"I used the different textures, the changes in texture of the frames, to create the cinematographic suggestion of an idea, of a philosophical thought of Nietzsche's: the play of perspectives" (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

b>Director: Julio Bressane.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Julio Bressane, Rosa Dias.
Director of photography: José Tadeu Ribeiro.
Editor: Virginia Flores.
Music: Ronel Alberti Rosa.
Art director: Moa Batsow.
Costume designer: Maria Aparecida Gavaldão.
Cast: Fernando Eiras, Paulo José, Mariana Ximenes, Leandra Leal, Tina Novelli.
Production company: Julio Bressane per TB Produções.
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