José Régio
Nacimiento : 1901-09-17, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Muerte : 1969-12-22
Historia
José Maria dos Reis Pereira, better known by the pen name José Regio, was a Portuguese writer who spent most of his life in Portalegre (1929 to 1962). He was the brother of Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira, a painter and illustrator.
Writer
Historia sobre el Rey Sebastián I de Portugal (el que originó el mito del sebastianismo), un rey obsesionado con reemprender las gestas bélicas de los antiguos reyes de Portugal a pesar de que su reino está empobrecido. La historia se basa en una novela de José Regio.
Writer
En una "Casa de Enajenados", se entrecruzan personajes perseguidos por ideas obsesivas como personas alucinadas. Cada cual a su manera tomándose unos por figuras bíblicas, tales como: los Fariseos, Adán, Eva, Jesús, Lázaro, Marta y María, otros como personajes de romance, como Raskolnikov y Sónia de “Crimen y Castigo”, o Ivan y Aliocha de los “Hermanos Karamazov”; otro que encarna al Filósofo del “Anti-Cristo”, y otro que se cree personificar al Profeta de la “Salvación del Mundo”.
Writer
Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.
Story
José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between courtship and marriage. The young pair are very much in love, but José begins to have doubts about the "honesty" of such intense feelings of love, feelings which are too intense (or hot) to him . If Maria Eugénia is like this with him, will she be the same with other men?In the meantime, the Revolution takes its course. José, who previously had been persecuted because of his opposition against the old regime, now feels "left behind" and frustrated.
Writer
In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.
Writer
A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.
Original Story
Documentary by Manoel de Oliveira filmed in 1965 and exhibited in 2008 in the Venice Film Festival.
Writer
The camera shows the vivid paintings by late Júlio Régio, with a narrative by his brother, while guitar tunes underline the mood and rhythm of the cinematography.
Himself
The camera shows the vivid paintings by late Júlio Régio, with a narrative by his brother, while guitar tunes underline the mood and rhythm of the cinematography.