9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1991
A idade maior
by Teresa Villaverde
Country: Portugal
Year: 1991
Duration: 120'
As we are told in the beginning of the film, Portugal was very different from today during 1972 and 1973. Alex was only 10 years old but he remembers and it is best to let him tell the story. He longs for those days and perhaps that is why he tells this story. His father was sent to Africa. He returned but no one saw him. Same time later mother went to get him and brought him home. Nowadays the house is empty but for Alex.
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).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Teresa Villaverde.
Director of photography: Elfi Mikesch.
Art director: Miguel Nendes, Jeanne Waltz.
Editor: Manuela Viegas, Vasco Pimentel.
Music: Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Sound: Vasco Pimentel.
Cast and characters: Ricardo Colares (Alex), Vincent Gallo (Mario), Teresa Roby (Manuela), Maria de Medeiros (Barbara), Joaquim de Almeida (Pedro).
Director of Production: João Pedro Bénard.
Production company: Invicta Filmes, Av. Guerra Junqueiro, 52º E, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. 018473523/4/5, fax 01894012.
Foreign sales agent: Uniportugal, Av. Duque de Loulé, 79r/c DA, 1900 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. 01520339.
Director of photography: Elfi Mikesch.
Art director: Miguel Nendes, Jeanne Waltz.
Editor: Manuela Viegas, Vasco Pimentel.
Music: Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Sound: Vasco Pimentel.
Cast and characters: Ricardo Colares (Alex), Vincent Gallo (Mario), Teresa Roby (Manuela), Maria de Medeiros (Barbara), Joaquim de Almeida (Pedro).
Director of Production: João Pedro Bénard.
Production company: Invicta Filmes, Av. Guerra Junqueiro, 52º E, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. 018473523/4/5, fax 01894012.
Foreign sales agent: Uniportugal, Av. Duque de Loulé, 79r/c DA, 1900 Lisboa, Portugal, tel. 01520339.
