20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Julio Bressane

Lima Barreto: Trajetória

Lima Barreto: Trajetória

Country: Brazil
Year: 1965
Duration: 11'


The cinema debut of Bressane and Afonso Beato, the director of photography. A film-essay about the author Lima Barreto which already seems to be a presage of his last film, Dias de Nietzsche em Turim, in its usage of texture and language. "I liked him a lot as an author, Lima Barreto wasn't well known at the time, I researched his writings, the locations, old photographs of Rio de Janeiro and the music of the time. He was admitted into psychiatric hospitals many times and he wrote a diary in the hospital which contains some of his best prose. In some passages he almost seems like Machado de Assis. I filmed some of the passages of the diary in Agonia. The traveling shots along the corridors, in the library, were repeated in Cara a Cara, part of this film was shot in the same place" (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

Director and screenplay: Julio Bressane.
Consulenza sceneggiatura: Carlos Heitor Cony, Francisco Assis Barbosa.
Director of photography: David Neves, Afonso Beato.
Editor: Eduardo Escorel.
Selezione brani musicali: Ary Vasconcelos, Julio Bressane.
Voci narranti: Ferreira Gullar, Raul Cortez.
Production company: David Neves, Afonso Beato.
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