Country: Portugal
Year: 2015
Duration: 100'
Rita is fifteen and this explains a lot. The full-fledged adolescent spends the long, hot summer days with her best friend Sara, doing the usual things people that age do: hairdos to fix and undo, code names to make up for each other, and of course someone to fall head over heels in love with. But instead of the usual high school classmate, the object of her palpitations is a forty-year-0ld photographer who just inaugurated an exhibit about Melanesia: to Rita, the distance between Portugal and Papua New Guinea is as short as the one between reality and fiction.
Biography
film director
João Nicolau
João Nicolau (Lisbon, Portugal), director, film editor, actor and musician, in 2010 he directed the feature film A Espada e a Rosa, presented in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. From 1999 to 2013 he also directed various shorts, including O Dom das Lágrimas (2012), presented at the Locarno Film Festival; Gambozinos (2013), selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes; and the collective film Historias de Guimarães, which he made in 2012 with João Botelho and Tiago Pereira to celebrate the city of Guimarães as the European Capital of Culture and presented at the Rome Film Festival. He also edited two shorts by Miguel Gomes (31, 2003, and Redemption, 2013) and L’estate di Giacomo by Alessandro Comodin (2011).
FILMOGRAFIA
Calado Não Dá (doc., 1999), Rapace (cm, 2006), Canção de Amor e Saúde (cm, 2009), A Espada e a Rosa (2010), O Dom das Lágrimas (cm 2012), Gambozinos (cm, 2013), John From (2015).
Declaration
film director
“Nothing is as fierce as the heart of a young girl. If there is a purer and more violent thing I do not know what that might be. Unashamedly prudish and playful, this film seeks to sound out the logic and transformations of youthful passion. By respecting and observing its particular codes, I set out on this exploration while keeping a safe distance from the approach that sees the attraction between a teenager and someone older as a psychological disorder or a symptom of social disease.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
João Nicolau
sceneggiatura/screenplay
João Nicolau, Mariana Ricardo
fotografia/cinematography
Mário Castanheira
montaggio/film editing
Alessandro Comodin, João Nicolau
scenografia/production design
Bruno Duarte, Cypress Cook
costumi/costume design
Susana Moura
musica/music
João Lobo
suono/sound
Miguel Martins
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Júlia Palha (Rita), Clara Riedl-Riedenstein (Sara), Filipe Vargas (Filipe), Leonor Silveira (la mamma/mother), Adriano Luz (il padre/father), João Xavier (Nuno), Daniel Cotrim (Bruno), Vasco Pimentel (Mr Pimentel), Pedro Coelho (Misha), Teresa Bairrada (Beatriz)
produttori/producers
Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
produzione/production
O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud
coproduttore/coproducer
Thomas Ordonneau
contatti/contacts
O Som e a Fúria
geral@osomeafuria.com
www.osomeafuria.com
João Nicolau
sceneggiatura/screenplay
João Nicolau, Mariana Ricardo
fotografia/cinematography
Mário Castanheira
montaggio/film editing
Alessandro Comodin, João Nicolau
scenografia/production design
Bruno Duarte, Cypress Cook
costumi/costume design
Susana Moura
musica/music
João Lobo
suono/sound
Miguel Martins
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Júlia Palha (Rita), Clara Riedl-Riedenstein (Sara), Filipe Vargas (Filipe), Leonor Silveira (la mamma/mother), Adriano Luz (il padre/father), João Xavier (Nuno), Daniel Cotrim (Bruno), Vasco Pimentel (Mr Pimentel), Pedro Coelho (Misha), Teresa Bairrada (Beatriz)
produttori/producers
Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
produzione/production
O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud
coproduttore/coproducer
Thomas Ordonneau
contatti/contacts
O Som e a Fúria
geral@osomeafuria.com
www.osomeafuria.com
