33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE 2015
AS MIL E UMA NOITES - VOLUME 2, O DESOLADO
by Miguel Gomes
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Year: 2015
Duration: 131'
True stories and fiction, theatrical mise-en-scène and the tragedies of life alternate to construct a gallery of pain and the absurd. The figure of a judge stands out, a sensitive and suffering woman who has nothing left but her tears.
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 is not only one good angle to see things. You have to shift and to change. This is why for instance in the story of Dixie the dog I have very dramatic situations: a couple commit suicide, people have to ask for charity in order to eat. But you also have another point-of-view: a dog that should be in a Walt Disney film, but he’s in the wrong country and the wrong film. He’s kind of happy! I think the second volume is the most dark and desperate of the three. The only character that is happy is a dog because he is not aware of things: everyone is committing suicide, and he doesn’t know about that. He’s just trying to eat and to play with people. I think you also have to have this point of view. I follow the master, Jean Renoir, who said you have to have all points of view of the characters.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Miguel Gomes
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro
fotografia/cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Lisa Persson, Mário Castanheira
montaggio/film editing
Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques, Miguel Gomes
scenografia/production design
Bruno Duarte, Artur Pinheiro
costumi/costume design
Silvia Grabowski, Lucha D’Orey
suono/sound
Vasco Pimentel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character
Teresa Madruga (Luísa), Crista Alfaiate (la mucca/cow), João Pedro Bénard (Humberto), Margarida Carpinteiro (Mãe-Glória), Chico Chapas (Simão Sem Tripas), Carloto Cotta (Careto), Luísa Cruz (Juíza), Joana de Verona (Vânia), Eduardo Frazão, Jing Jing Guo, Pedro Inês, Lucky, Dixie, Adriano Luz
produttori/producers
Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar, Thomas Ordonneau, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowksi, Maren Ade, Elena Tatti, Thierry Spicher, Elodie Brunner
produzione/production
O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud, Komplizen Film, Box Productions
distribuzione/distribution
Milano Film Network
contatti/contacts
Milano Film Network
Tel: +39 2 6696258
distribuzione@milanofilmnetwork.it
Miguel Gomes
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro
fotografia/cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Lisa Persson, Mário Castanheira
montaggio/film editing
Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques, Miguel Gomes
scenografia/production design
Bruno Duarte, Artur Pinheiro
costumi/costume design
Silvia Grabowski, Lucha D’Orey
suono/sound
Vasco Pimentel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character
Teresa Madruga (Luísa), Crista Alfaiate (la mucca/cow), João Pedro Bénard (Humberto), Margarida Carpinteiro (Mãe-Glória), Chico Chapas (Simão Sem Tripas), Carloto Cotta (Careto), Luísa Cruz (Juíza), Joana de Verona (Vânia), Eduardo Frazão, Jing Jing Guo, Pedro Inês, Lucky, Dixie, Adriano Luz
produttori/producers
Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar, Thomas Ordonneau, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowksi, Maren Ade, Elena Tatti, Thierry Spicher, Elodie Brunner
produzione/production
O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud, Komplizen Film, Box Productions
distribuzione/distribution
Milano Film Network
contatti/contacts
Milano Film Network
Tel: +39 2 6696258
distribuzione@milanofilmnetwork.it
