This year’s Berlinale’s Forum includes the world premiere of Rita Azevedo Gomes’ latest feature film, “The Kegelstatt Trio,” adapted from the 1987 stage play, written by the late French helmer, Éric Rohmer.
The privately-funded Portuguese/Spanish co-production was shot during the lockdown, produced by Gomes and Gonzalo García Pelayo. It received post-production completion finance from the Portuguese Film and Audiovisual Institute (Ica).
Rohmer wrote “Le Trio en mi bémol,” inspired by Mozart’s composition of that name, while writing his 1989 pic, “Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle.”
The story revolves around a series of encounters between two former lovers who talk about what led them to drift apart, including the importance of music in cementing their relationship. Whereas the man views classical music as the supreme art form, able to move the mind and body at the profoundest level, the woman sees it as being a primarily intellectual attraction.
The privately-funded Portuguese/Spanish co-production was shot during the lockdown, produced by Gomes and Gonzalo García Pelayo. It received post-production completion finance from the Portuguese Film and Audiovisual Institute (Ica).
Rohmer wrote “Le Trio en mi bémol,” inspired by Mozart’s composition of that name, while writing his 1989 pic, “Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle.”
The story revolves around a series of encounters between two former lovers who talk about what led them to drift apart, including the importance of music in cementing their relationship. Whereas the man views classical music as the supreme art form, able to move the mind and body at the profoundest level, the woman sees it as being a primarily intellectual attraction.
- 2/15/2022
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
With Sundance Film Festival now in the rearview, all sights are set on the Berlin International Film Festival when it comes to getting a new batch of the year’s best in cinema. Ahead of the kick-off next week, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer for Portuguese director Rita Azevedo Gomes’ O Trio em Mi Bemol aka The Kagelstatt Trio.
Written by Gomes alongside Renaud Legrand, the film follows a character named Jorge, who is making a film around O Trio em Mi Bemol, Éric Rohmer’s 1980s theater play. “Adélia and Paul have divorced long ago. One day she pays him a visit. Along the year they meet 7 times,” reads the synopsis. “For Jorge, ‘time and time again the broom has to go over all things, and all has to be dusted and said again,’ even if he doesn’t know why.”
Starring Rita Durão, Pierre Léon,...
Written by Gomes alongside Renaud Legrand, the film follows a character named Jorge, who is making a film around O Trio em Mi Bemol, Éric Rohmer’s 1980s theater play. “Adélia and Paul have divorced long ago. One day she pays him a visit. Along the year they meet 7 times,” reads the synopsis. “For Jorge, ‘time and time again the broom has to go over all things, and all has to be dusted and said again,’ even if he doesn’t know why.”
Starring Rita Durão, Pierre Léon,...
- 1/31/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A Portuguese Woman“It doesn’t really matter where things come from. What matters is picking things up again, mess them up, try to push them forward in a different way. All of us do it, we’ve all been doing it all through time, and things haven’t really changed that much since Greece. What we can try is to do something that seems to be new, or that is shown in a whole different way—even if not necessarily intentionally.”In a way, that’s what Rita Azevedo Gomes has been doing through her career as a filmmaker. A career, avowedly, somewhat confidential—her latest fiction, The Portuguese Woman, is only her 9th film since her 1990 debut O Som da Terra a Tremer—but one that has been quietly snowballing since 2012’s The Revenge of a Woman, to her own surprise, became a firm festival favorite. Her 2016 poetic...
- 8/1/2019
- MUBI
Not your standard adaptation of Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th century classic Les diaboliques, Rita Azevedo Gomes' retribution-filled A Woman’s Revenge tells the story of a missing noblewoman, the Duchess of Sierra Leone, (Rita Durão) in her quest to act out in violence. After a marriage without passion and a glimpse into how the flipside might feel like, she faces the death of her love interest. She then faces the ultimate journey of the cruelest of all the revenges, her husband’s honor, while she becomes a local prostitute. In this light we see Roberto (Fernando Rodrigues), he is arrogant and feels numb towards life, after meeting the Duchess he finds what he is waiting for, a light in the end of the tunnel. Part of the Spectrum section at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the beautifully shot pics embodies a theatre atmosphere, where you can feel part...
- 2/21/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
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