Country: Portugal
Year: 2004
Duration: 108'
“Until thirty years of age, you have the face God gave you; after that you have the face you deserve,” says a Portuguese motto. And it seems true, watching dissatisfied Francisco on his birthday, dressed up like a cowboy and on his way to the carnival party organized at the school where he teaches. He is irritated by the children and maybe it’s because he is trying to break free of his own childhood and enter adulthood. Not a minor problem, which forces him to seek refuge in a fantasy world where, with the help of seven loony characters, his quest for maturity goes off on unusual tangents.
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
“I wanted to do a film about this, you know, crisis of being thirty. [...] I had this idea to create a character that at a certain point just could not continue. So he was interacting with other people, and then he gets abandoned, and comes down with the measles. And then the film turns into Snow White, so he has to return to his childhood and try to… well, he becomes like a film director, he has to make a film to save himself.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Miguel Gomes
sceneggiatura/screenplay Miguel Gomes, Manuel Mozos, Telmo Churro fotografia/cinematography Rui Poçhas
montaggio/film editing Miguel Gomes, Sandro Aguilar
scenografia/production design Luisa Perdigto
costumi/costume design Silvia Grabowski
musica/music Mariana Ricardo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters José Airosa (Francisco), Gracinda Nave (Marta), Sara Graça (Vera), Miguel Barroso (Carlos), João Nicolau (Nicolau), Ricardo Gross (Gross), Rui Catalão (Travassos), António Figueiredo (Cópi), Manuel Mozos (Harry), Carloto Cotta (Texas), Pedro Caldas (Simões) produttori/producers João Figueiras, Sandro Aguilar
produzione/production O Som e a Fúria
sceneggiatura/screenplay Miguel Gomes, Manuel Mozos, Telmo Churro fotografia/cinematography Rui Poçhas
montaggio/film editing Miguel Gomes, Sandro Aguilar
scenografia/production design Luisa Perdigto
costumi/costume design Silvia Grabowski
musica/music Mariana Ricardo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters José Airosa (Francisco), Gracinda Nave (Marta), Sara Graça (Vera), Miguel Barroso (Carlos), João Nicolau (Nicolau), Ricardo Gross (Gross), Rui Catalão (Travassos), António Figueiredo (Cópi), Manuel Mozos (Harry), Carloto Cotta (Texas), Pedro Caldas (Simões) produttori/producers João Figueiras, Sandro Aguilar
produzione/production O Som e a Fúria
