Country: Portugal, France
Year: 2012
Duration: 25'
At dawn on Saint Anthony’s day, the patron saint of Portugal, a group of young people, looking a bit like zombies and a bit like a love parade, wander numbly through the deserted streets of Lisbon. It is the custom that every lover, as a sign of their love, should give a vase of basil with little pieces of paper attached to it.
Biography
film director
João Pedro Rodrigues
João Pedro Rodrigues (Lisbon, Portugal, 1966) debuted in 1997 with the short film Parabéns!. The feature O Fantasma was in competition in Venice in 2000, and Odete received a special mention in Cannes in 2005. He participated at the 30th Torino Film Festival with the short film Manhã de Santo António, and won the Internazionale.doc section with A Última Vez Que Vi Macau (2012), which he directed with João Rui Guerra da Mata. With the same codirector Rodrigues also directed the short Mahjong (2013), selected at the Festival in Waves section. In 2016 he directed O Ornitólogo, also presented at the TFF after being in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2022 he directed another feature, Fogo-Fátuo, presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, before participating again in Locarno with Onde Fica Esta Rua? Ou Sem Antes Nem Depois, also directed with Guerra da Mata.
FILMOGRAFIA
O Pastor (cm, 1988), Esta É a Minha Casa (mm, doc., 1997), Parabéns! (cm, 1997), Viagem à Expo (mm, doc., 1998), O Fantasma (Il fantasma, 2000), Odete (2005), China, China (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, cm, 2007), Morrer Como um Homem (2009), Alvorada Vermelha (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, cm, 2011), Manhã de Santo António (cm, 2012), A Última Vez Que Vi Macau (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, doc., 2012), O Corpo de Afonso (cm, 2013), Mahjong (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, cm, 2013), O Ornitólogo (2016), Où en êtes-vous, João Pedro Rodrigues? (cm, doc, 2017), 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing (cm, 2019), Um Quarto na Cidade (cm, doc, 2021), Fogo-Fátuo (2022), Onde Fica Esta Rua? (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, doc, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“The idea for this film came from a photograph I took with my mobile phone while on my way home in Lisbon, on the first metro in the early hours after the Saint Anthony’s eve celebrations on the 13th of June. That evening I had caught the last metro into the city centre. The train was full. Boys and girls of various urban tribes were full of high spirits. [...] The last metro marked the beginning of a party that went on all night. In the early hours, I caught the first train back home at 6.30 a.m. The contrast couldn’t have been greater. Although it was as full as it had been the night before, there was now absolute silence. The train was not carrying people, but exhausted bodies, half asleep.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
João Pedro Rodrigues
fotografia/cinematography
Rui Poças
montaggio/film editing Mariana Gaivão
scenografia/production design João Rui Guerra da Mata
suono/sound Nuno Carvalho
interpreti/cast Alexander David, Mariana Sampaio, Miguel Nunes, Lydie Bárbara, Ricardo Borges, Sónia Santos
produttore/producer João Figueiras
produzione/production Blackmaria
coproduzione, distribuzione/coproduction, distribution Le Fresnoy
montaggio/film editing Mariana Gaivão
scenografia/production design João Rui Guerra da Mata
suono/sound Nuno Carvalho
interpreti/cast Alexander David, Mariana Sampaio, Miguel Nunes, Lydie Bárbara, Ricardo Borges, Sónia Santos
produttore/producer João Figueiras
produzione/production Blackmaria
coproduzione, distribuzione/coproduction, distribution Le Fresnoy
