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• Archive L’Unità

  25Apr
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• Photography – Archive

  27May
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  1- António Pedro Vasconcelos

  2- João César Monteiro

  3- João Bénard da Costa

  4- Fernando Lopes

• 8 years”

  03Feb
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• Pedro Proença and JCM

  24Oct
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  by Pedro Proença

• Today – Harvard University

  16May
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  Silvestre

  Directed by César Monteiro.

  With Maria de Madeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luís Miguel Cintra

  Portugal 1981, 35mm, color, 118 min. Portuguese with English subtitles

  A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant, Silvestre is both radically feminist and fascinated with the dark, primal logic of the paternal order. Monteiro’s earliest collaboration with producer Paulo Branco was among his first to receive international acclaim, with special attention given to Silvestre’s daring use of deliberate artifice – front-projected backgrounds, extended freeze frames, theatrical performances – to capture the fatalistic rhythm and dream logic of myth.

  

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