A Mulher do Próximo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A Mulher do Próximo |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | José Fonseca e Costa |
| script |
Miguel Esteves Cardoso , José Fonseca e Costa |
| production | Tino Navarro |
| music | Antonio Emiliano |
| camera | Eduardo Serra |
| cut |
José Alves Perreira , José Fonseca e Costa |
| occupation | |
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A Mulher do Próximo ( Portuguese for: The Wife of the Neighbor) is a tragic-comic film by the Portuguese director José Fonseca e Costa from 1988 .
In Denmark the film appeared as Din næstes hustru and in Spain as La mujer del prójimo , otherwise it is performed internationally under the English title The Neighbor's Wife .
action
The quiet and carefree life of the wealthy and cultivated Castro Silva family is shaken when the head of the family, Mário, dies with his young lover Terry. After the dead person has been identified in the morgue , the widow Cristina and her daughter Isabel, who has traveled from Brazil, meet António, an old friend of Mario. Mário and Cristina were a couple when they were young.
In addition, there is gossip among the domestic workers, but also their own ambitions and circumstances. Sometimes they have to suffer rebukes and punishments from family members, but the family and employees also share moments between confidentiality, friendship and desire. The butler Manuel in particular plays an essential role in both worlds of the house and enjoys the attention of the teenage daughter Isabel, who in turn wants to evade the eccentric Henrique.
In this context, a sequence of dialogues and scenes full of black humor and a bizarre search for meaning relax. The appearances of obviously untalented chamber musicians around the pianist and composer António Victorino de Almeida at the meals of the family and the different ways in which the family members treat them represents one of the other comical elements.
production
The screenplay was written by writer Miguel Esteves Cardoso together with director Fonseca e Costa.
The film was shot mainly in the mansion Casa de Sezim in the municipality Nespereira , county Guimarães .
The work was financed by the Portuguese film subsidy ICA and co-produced by the public television broadcaster RTP (in the form of its production and distribution company at the time Rádio Televisão Comercial ) and the MGN film company.
In addition to music from the Carnival of the Animals and pieces of Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss in which the film music nor that of Teresa Salgueiro sung and provided by Miguel Esteves Cardoso with a Portuguese text version of Irving Berlin Marie (The Dawn Is Breaking) to name .
reception
The film opened in Portuguese cinemas on December 1, 1988 and was well received by critics and audiences alike.
The criticism rated him very positively. In addition to the script, the actors were particularly praised: both the return of the well-known actor Virgílio Teixeira and the introduction of the Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres in the Portuguese cinema were considered successful, as was the sovereign performance of the renowned Portuguese theater actress Carmen Dolores .
The film also represents a seamless transition of Fonseca e Costa's work from his more political films to his henceforth more entertaining work. Although it continues to show the comfortable idleness of the upper - class upper class, there are no direct political references here.
The work has been shown at a number of film festivals , including the renowned Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo and the Ibero-American Film Festival in Huelva , Spain , where it won the main prize, the Golden Columbus ( Colón ).
In 2014 the film was released on DVD in Portugal.
Web links
- A Mulher do Próximo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Compilation of some scenes from the film from a TV recording on YouTube (poor picture quality)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cover of the DVD release, Satyricon / MGN Filmes, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962-1988. Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 1989 ( ISBN 972-21-0446-2 ), pp. 273f
- ↑ The film A Mulher do Próximo at the São Paulo International Film Festival ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 6, 2017
- ↑ Prizes won for the film A Mulher do Próximo in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on April 6, 2017
