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#10 - MARGARIDA CARDOSO
11/09/2004
"The Murmuring Coast is the free adaptation of the same-titled novel by portuguese author Lídia Jorge.
Mine is a very personal relationship with the novel, because the story takes place in a time and place that mirror my own childhood: the 60s. An African colonial town. A shore. An hotel filled with military personnel and their families. A distant war. The routine and hypocritical normality af a forgotten country living its forgotten war. These were perilous and extremely violent times, a violence that was almost domestic, that was (and still is...) brought down on the weak, women, blacks, animals...
This is the violence I wanted to talk about, of the breeze from a gloryless, honourless, and petty past that, to me is the perfect metaphor for the colonial times that are nearing their end.
For those of us, who lived in these times, all is left is a feeling of things left unsaid and of guilt. For those who didn’t experience them there is nothing..."
Margarida Cardoso
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