Country: Portugal
Year: 2018
Duration: 105'
During a summer spent in Piedmont, in the countryside near Turin, the Portuguese director Teresa Villaverde filmed the life, work, friends, and relatives of the filmmaker Tonino De Bernardi and his wife Mariella. Long conversations during meals, short dialogues snatched in the free moments, encounters with elderly people and young students, the silences and actions of daily life reveal thoughts, memories, moments of love and sometimes of pain. A movie about the relationship between generations, about the transmission of knowledge, about love and the relationship between art and life.
Biography
film director
Teresa Villaverde
Teresa Villaverde (Lisbon, Portugal, 1966) began her career as an actress, cowriter and codirector at the theatre of the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She appeared as an actress in À Flor do Mar (João César Monteiro, 1986), worked as an assistant to Paulo Rocha and as a cowriter with José Álvaro Morais and João Canijo. Since the 1990s she has directed her own films including A Idade Maior which screened at the Berlinale in 1991. She made her international breakthrough in 1998 with Os Mutantes and in 2001 presented at Venice Água e Sal. In 2010 she founded her own production company Alce Filmes. With Colo, selected in competition at the Berlinale, participated in 2017 at the Torino Film Festival. In 2018 the Torino Film Festival presented also O Termómetro de Galileu.
FILMOGRAFIA
A Idade Maior (1991), Três Irmãos (1994), O Amor Não me Engana (cm, doc., tv, 1996), Os Mutantes (1998), Água e Sal (2001), A Favor da Claridade (doc., 2003), Visions of Europe (ep. Cold Wa(te)r, 2004), Transe (2006), Cisne (2011), Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013), Ponts de Sarajevo (I ponti di Sarajevo, ep. Sara e a Sua Mãe, cm, 2014), Paris 15/16 (cm, 2016), Colo (2017), O Termómetro de Galileu (doc., 2018), Six Portraits of Pain (2019).
Declaration
film director
“Shot in Italy with the family of the director Tonino De Bernardi, a movie about the transmission of values from one generation to the next, about the respect which each one of us has for the other, for life and for art.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, produttore/director, screenplay, cinematography, producer
Teresa Villaverde
montaggio/film editing
Rodolphe Molla
Teresa Villaverde
scenografia/production design
Maria José Branco
costumi/costume design
Rute Correia
suono/sound
Joël Rangon, Vasco Pimentel, Teresa Villaverde
interpreti/cast
Tonino De Bernardi, Mariella Navale
produzione/production
Alce Filmes
**
contatti/contacts
Portugal Film
Ana Isabel Strindberg
dir@portugalfilm.org
www.portugalfilm.org
Teresa Villaverde
montaggio/film editing
Rodolphe Molla
Teresa Villaverde
scenografia/production design
Maria José Branco
costumi/costume design
Rute Correia
suono/sound
Joël Rangon, Vasco Pimentel, Teresa Villaverde
interpreti/cast
Tonino De Bernardi, Mariella Navale
produzione/production
Alce Filmes
**
contatti/contacts
Portugal Film
Ana Isabel Strindberg
dir@portugalfilm.org
www.portugalfilm.org
