20° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Julio Bressane

Matou a Familia e foi ao Cinema

Matou a Familia e foi ao Cinema

Country: Brazil
Year: 1969
Duration: 80'


A young man stabs his mother and father to death and goes to the movies to see the film Perdidos de Amor. A young bride, who is rich and bored, decides to vacation in Petrópolis. Her mother asks a girlfriend to accompany her daughter and talk her out of¸asking for a divorce. In a house, a man kills a woman for love. A young man is tortured by the police. Two suburban girls are in love with each other. The mother of one of them condemns her lesbian relationship and is killed with an axe. A man kills his wife because she complains of their financial difficulties. The two girlfriends remember their high school days, make love and shoot each other to death. "I filmed Matou a Familia right after O Anjo Nasceu, in the same time sequence. But the project for Matou predates the other one, it radicalizes the narrative structure of Cara a Cara. The question of parallel stories and editing… There is a similar multiple structure" (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, sceneggiatura e colonna sonora: Julio Bressane.
Director of photography: Thiago Veloso.
Editor: Geraldo Veloso.
Assistente alla regia e scenografia: Guará (Guaracy Rodrigues).
Sound: Walter Goulart.
Cast: Antero de Oliveira, M·rcia Rodrigues, Renata Sorrah, Vanda Lacerda, Paulo Padilha, Rodolfo Arena, Maria Rodrigues, Carlos Eduardo Dolabella.
Director of Production: Mair Tavares.
Production company: Julio Bressane Produções Cinematográficas.

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