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HISTORIAS que so existem quando lembradas
Brazil, Argentina, France 2011, 98’, 35mm, colour
directed by Julia Murat
screenplay
JULIA MURAT
MARIA CLARA ESCOBAR
FELIPE SHOLL
cinematography
LUCIO BONELLI
editing
MARINA MELIANDE
sound
FACUNDO GIRON
music
LUCAS MARCIER
art direction
MARINA KOSOVSKI, TATIANA BOND
costumes
MARINA KOSOVSKI, TATIANA BOND
cast
SÔNIA GUEDES (Madalena)
LISA E. FÁVERO (Rita)
LUIZ SERRA (Antônio)
RICARDO MERKIN (Padre Josias)
ANTÔNIO DOS SANTOS (Carlos)
NELSON JUSTINIANO (Moacir)
MARIA APARECIDA CAMPOS (Anita)
MANOELINA DOS SANTOS (Aparecida)
EVANILDE SOUZA (Marieta)
JULIÃO ROSA (Zé)
ELIAS DOS SANTOS (Hilário)
PEDRO IGREJA (Bruno)
producer
LUCIA MURAT
JULIA MURAT
CHRISTIAN BOUDIER
JULIA SOLOMONOFF
FELICITAS RAFFO
JULIETTE LEPOUTRE
MARIE-PIERRE MACIA
production
TAIGA FILMES
co-production
MPM FILM
JULIA SOLOMONOFF
world sales
MPM FILM
17 Rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris- France
www.mpmfilm.com
synopsis
Every morning Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Every day she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years, she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, listens to the priest's sermon and then shares lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the memory of her dead husband, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who shows up in the ghost village of Jotuomba where time seems to have stopped. “During two months I travelled through the Paraíba Valley making small interviews and, more importantly, accompanying the everyday life of villages that in the 19th century were part of the richest region in Brazil, and now are seen in utter decadence. Even though the film has documentary qualities, its story can be seen as a fable. And a fable can be erased at any moment, be forgotten, if it is not told generation after generation.” (Julia Murat)
“How did you get here?” – an old woman asks a young girl, a photographer, who has just arrived to a village of old people. Time no longer runs for them. They have no real life but cannot just die. The movie is like a still-life. The photographic beauty of its shots hides a double mystery: only when life is fulfilled, does death become possible. A young Brazilian director gives a contemplative account, almost devoid of words, of something as delicate and paradoxical as accepting death. Photography does the job that religion was unable to do. The very act of photography teaches us what the director does. As Roland Barthes put it, each photo says: this is now past, this will die. And at the same time shows a life that is fulfilled and complete. (Tadeusz Sobolewski).
>Click here< to listen to the audio introduction to the film with exclusive extras, courtesy by Subti
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