Film Screening
Os Maias: Cenas da Vida Romântica
Portuguese film
Original version in Portuguese with French subtitles.
Based on the 19th century novel Os Maias by the Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós.
Masterpiece of the Portuguese writer, this naturalist fresco is compared to Zola and Thomas Mann.
Film director: João Botelho.
Film duration: 135 minutes.
Film summary: The tragi-comedy of Carlos' life begins, continues and ends as that of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, a supposedly brilliant writer, Carlos, who leads an idle life as an aristocratic doctor, spends his time enjoying his friends and having adventures. Until he falls in love. She is a new character in this revolutionary novel. It is a vertiginous passion that goes beyond the gloom of the past to reach a new and darker abyss, incest.
Director
João Botelho is a Portuguese director and screenwriter. He regularly draws on classical literary works in his work. His films have won several awards.
In collaboration with the Instituto Camôes.
Details
Goethe-Institut Montreal
1626 boul. St-Laurent
Bureau 100
H2X 2T1 Montreal, QC
Language: Portuguese with French subtitles
Price: Free admission
514-499-0159 # 105
lisezleurope@montreal.goethe.org
Part of series Lisez l'Europe goes to the movies 2018