Vítor Gonçalves

Lisbon interludes: Vitor Gonçalves on The Invisible Life and A Girl in Summer | Interview | Sight & Sound | BFI - bfi.org.uk

artikel na aanleiding van de (dvd) release van Invisible Life onlangs in de UK, waarin o.a. ook "A Girl in Summer" wordt aangekondigd als release bij Second Run. Op de Second Run website vind ik daar nog geen nieuws over, maar lijkt me inderdaad de perfecte film voor hun catalogus. Ondanks dat er ook recent een tv-rip van die film online verscheen, en ik figuurlijk gesproken niet kan wachtten, wacht ik nog wel een paar maanden op die release! Erg cool nieuws! leuk artikel ook

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quotes:

"If the Portuguese cinematography want to select some unique works," A girl in the summer, " among others, must be there. Moving work of art, rigorous, this Victor Gonçalves movie did fell like a meteor among us: is first the result of a dazzled meditation, obsessive, in life, in forms of cinema." - Antonio Reis

"The film of Victor Gonçalves impressed me in the best sense. Early in the simplicity and correctness of its sober and sensible realization. It is a vision of life from the shadow side, and drags the feeling of disintegration, the mismatch of affectivity in space and time. A hidden will of the impossible return to nature, so well represented by pine forest and the wall that separates civilization (...).

More than sad is a story, or a movie, desperate. From shadow, not the night. Because it is not declared in it the hopelessness. Before you can guess an impasse which, incidentally, translates a feeling very well Portuguese ... " - Manoel de Oliveira

"Blind, mute, dense, hard, stubbornly tight, wrapped in a black light that steals from our sight," A Girl in Summer " from Victor Gonçalves is a black hole sky in Portuguese cinema. Mysterious, masterful, stifling, in it one is immersed in the shadowy world of adolescence and without words, a night crossed by burnings strangers. Looking at the great visionary filmmakers of the silent film, Victor Gonçalves also inherited the absolute control of the means of expression: images, sounds, editing, reach here is a material evidence, a palpable presence of weight that modern cinema, lost between the look of TV , seemed to have lost. " - Paulo Rocha

en co-regie van Pedro Costa uiteraard

gevoelsmatig zit dit helemaal goed wat mij betreft, alle quotes gaan ook op voor Invisible Life...

Inderdaad, te gek nieuws.