There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you."
—Franz Kafka, "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way."
Above: Director Vítor Gonçalves
Behold the Palace Square in Lisbon—or rather, Praça do Comércio, where the Royal Ribeira Palace stood for nearly two hundred years. In the 18th century, the palace was destroyed by the Great Lisbon Earthquake, never to be restored (instead was built a new one, though, not for the King to live) hence the new name—The Square of Commerce. Here, in the seat of Fascist power, tens of thousands people would gather to listen to Salazar's orations (see Brandos Costumes by Alberto Seixas Santos); then came the Carnation Revolution.
—Franz Kafka, "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way."
Above: Director Vítor Gonçalves
Behold the Palace Square in Lisbon—or rather, Praça do Comércio, where the Royal Ribeira Palace stood for nearly two hundred years. In the 18th century, the palace was destroyed by the Great Lisbon Earthquake, never to be restored (instead was built a new one, though, not for the King to live) hence the new name—The Square of Commerce. Here, in the seat of Fascist power, tens of thousands people would gather to listen to Salazar's orations (see Brandos Costumes by Alberto Seixas Santos); then came the Carnation Revolution.
- 2/24/2014
- by Boris Nelepo
- MUBI
Like a lot of late (oft-fetish) objects of cinephilia (cf. Django Unchained, Holy Motors, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, the films of Gabriel Abrantes, even, or perhaps most of all, This Is Not a Film), Miguel Gomes' Tabu is a sutured fantasy, that is, with the seams showing: all calculating formal frameworks for cute fantasy only end up referring back to their production history (as documentary), as well as the same national history the self-contained storyline was supposed to shield against. Of course the point is simple: stories are cultural products, and as in the African documentaries of Salzar's chief propagandist, António Lopes Ribeiro, Gomes' stories end up revealing everything they're designed to evade. Until its late swerve into unremitting pastiche, the point when cultural history collapses into a Forrest Gump crime scene, Tabu, like so many Portuguese films with their cheap resources and love letter narrators, straddles the...
- 12/28/2012
- by David Phelps
- MUBI
A Portuguese film festival will be held in Goa with selection of contemporary films on November 5-6, 2011. The venue for the festival is Maquinez Palace; Auditorium I, Panaji.
The films to be screened as part of this festival are Miguel Gomes’s Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Our beloved Month of August), Telmo Martins’s Um Funeral à Chuva (A Funeral In the Rain), Alberto Seixas Santos’ E o Tempo Passa (And Time Goes By), Marco Martins’ Alice, João Salaviza’s Arena and Sandro Aguilar’s A Zona (The Zone).
This festival will be organized by the Entertainment Society of Goa in association with the Semana da Cultura Indo-Portuguesa, the Consulate General of Portugal, Goa, and Instituto Camões, Portugal.
For more information on the film schedule, log on to the www.iffigoa.org website.
The films to be screened as part of this festival are Miguel Gomes’s Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Our beloved Month of August), Telmo Martins’s Um Funeral à Chuva (A Funeral In the Rain), Alberto Seixas Santos’ E o Tempo Passa (And Time Goes By), Marco Martins’ Alice, João Salaviza’s Arena and Sandro Aguilar’s A Zona (The Zone).
This festival will be organized by the Entertainment Society of Goa in association with the Semana da Cultura Indo-Portuguesa, the Consulate General of Portugal, Goa, and Instituto Camões, Portugal.
For more information on the film schedule, log on to the www.iffigoa.org website.
- 11/2/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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