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6:30 PM
Os Maias: Cenas da Vida Romântica
Film Screening|Portuguese film
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Goethe-Institut Montreal, Montreal
- Language Portuguese with French subtitles
- Price Free admission
- Part of series: Lisez l'Europe goes to the movies 2018
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.
In collaboration with the Instituto Camôes.
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.
Location
Goethe-Institut Montreal
In the form of a local corporation
1626 boul. St-Laurent
Bureau 100
Montreal H2X 2T1
Kanada
In the form of a local corporation
1626 boul. St-Laurent
Bureau 100
Montreal H2X 2T1
Kanada