Country: Portugal
Year: 2001
Duration: 27'
Nuno and Mariana, two spoiled children from Portugal’s bourgeoisie, are taking a tennis lesson. Three boys come to bother them and pick a fight. At the end of the lesson, they lose their way in the park surrounding the sports center and find themselves in an adventure that is grotesque at first, then childish, the mirror image of a condition in which everything seems random and senseless.
Biography
film director
Miguel Gomes
Miguel Gomes (Lisbon, Portugal, 1972) worked as a film critic from 1996 to 2000, writing for the daily “Público.” In 1999, he directed his first short, Entretanto, which was presented at the Torino Film Festival, as was his next short, Cântico das Criaturas (2006) and the feature-length Tabu (2012). That same year, the Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus in the section Onde. Gomes debuted in feature films with A Cara que Mereces (2004), which was followed by Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, and Tabu (2012), which won the Alfred Bauer Award and the FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2013, he participated at the Venice Film Festival with the short Redemption, and he returned to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs with As Mil e uma Noites.
FILMOGRAFIA
Entretanto (cm, 1999), Inventário de Natal (cm, 2000), 31 (cm, 2001), Kalkitos (cm, 2002) Pre-Evolution Soccer’s One Minute After a Golden Goal in the Master League (cm, 2003), A Cara que Mereces (2004), Cântico das Criaturas (cm, 2006), Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), Tabu (2012), Redemption (cm, 2013), Arabian Nights (2015).
Declaration
film director
“There’s a tug of war between cinema and politics, between The Wizard of Oz and the Carnation Revolution, and a sort of science fiction foretelling a catastrophe.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Miguel Gomes
fotografia/cinematography João Nicolau, Miguel Gomes
montaggio/film editing João Nicolau
suono/sound António Pedro Figueiredo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Mariana Ricardo (Mariana), Nuno Oliveira (Nuno)
produttore/producer Bruno Lourenço
produzione/production O Som e a Fúria
fotografia/cinematography João Nicolau, Miguel Gomes
montaggio/film editing João Nicolau
suono/sound António Pedro Figueiredo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Mariana Ricardo (Mariana), Nuno Oliveira (Nuno)
produttore/producer Bruno Lourenço
produzione/production O Som e a Fúria
