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A MÃE

João César Monteiro

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1979

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Portugal

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FIC

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25

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This film tells us about two sons, in opposite walks of life, and the unwilling travels of their mother's body. The Trouble With Mother' could be the title of this short film, recalling Alfred Hitchcock's film that instead of a mother buried and unburied the remarkable Harry. As a matter of fact, João César Monteiro's mother, even after she dies is the engine that makes the action move, set out between the contradictions of the tricks of a poor and naive son and the shrewdness of a rich and arrogant son. The echoes from this family class struggle resonate in this episode's title O Rico e o Pobre (The Rich and the Poor) seen in many filmographies. With a more classical planning and a more regular editing, this film polarises in the acting direction the peculiarities of the amateur actors, men and women who lent their homes and daily props to recreate the atmospheres, sometimes defined with a radiant plainness, other times with nocturnal, cold and macabre outlines. And, above all, in the narrative vigour of A M

 

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João César Monteiro
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