Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos

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Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos

António-Pedro Saraiva de Barros e Vasconcelos (born March 10, 1939 in Leiria ) is a Portuguese film director and producer .

Life

He completed his school career in Coimbra , Lisbon and in the Jesuit boarding school in Santo Tirso . He broke off his law studies at the University of Lisbon , which he had begun in 1957, after three years to devote himself entirely to film. From 1958 to 1960 he was already in the association's board of film clubs Cine-Clube Universitário de Lisboa . At the invitation of José Ernesto de Sousa , he then became a film critic (his first article from July 1959 dealt with Visconti's White Nights of 1957) and assisted him in the production of commercials.

With a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation , Vasconcelos went to Paris in 1961 and studied film with Georges Sadoul at the Sorbonne . In 1963 he went to Italy to become an assistant at Rossellini . Back in Portugal he worked again as a journalist (including for Expresso ) and made commercials . In 1967 he made his first film, a documentary.

In 1969 Vasconcelos was one of the founders of the Centro Português de Cinema , which he headed between 1974 and 1975 and in the context of which he shot his first feature film: Perdido por Cem brought the everyday language of young people into the film and spoke about topics such as emigration and conscription under the sign of the Portuguese colonial war . Similar to the groundbreaking Os Verdes Anos in 1963, the story is told based on a young man who comes to Lisbon, falls in love and fails to uproot.

Vasconcelos was editor-in-chief of the film magazine Cinéfilo from 1973 to 1974 , and from 1978 to 1981 he taught film editing at the film school of the National Conservatory . Between 1980 and 1981 he was the head of the feature film department of the second television channel of the RTP .

Vasconcelos also wrote screenplays (e.g. for Matar Saudades by Fernando Lopes ) and worked with João Botelho on his film Conversa Acabada .

In 1979 Vasconcelos founded the film production company VOFilmes with Paulo Branco , which produced films for Manoel de Oliveira , Wim Wenders , Alain Tanner , João César Monteiro , Raúl Ruiz and himself, among others .

In the 1980s, there was a growing debate among filmmakers in Portugal about cinema as art or entertainment . In addition to directors such as Luís Galvão Teles or José Fonseca e Costa , Vasconcelos was also in favor of a cinema that wins back the general public for Portuguese films and does not only focus on cinema buffs. So he left the symbolic-poetic film language of the Portuguese film of the time and looked for more straightforward narrative forms without making concessions on the subject. His film O Lugar do Morto thus surprised the Portuguese audience, and received both critics and audiences alike, and in 1984 the thriller became the most successful Portuguese film in 25 years.

With Jaime , Vasconcelos made another popular film in 1999 in a straightforward narrative style without compromising the topic (child labor and social inequality ). The film also hit French cinemas as Ras de bol in 2001 and received critical acclaim and goodwill.

After the equally popular Os Imortais , Vasconcelos was able to place his two subsequent films Call Girl (a story of corruption among local politicians) and A Bela eo Paparazzo (a romantic comedy that satirically the tabloid press) among the 10 most-watched Portuguese films of 2004 to 2012. The casting of the leading role in both films with Soraia Chaves , a well-known ex- model, contributed significantly to the success .

Filmography

Awards

  • 1973: Perdido por Cem - Film Club Prize at the Toulon Festival
  • 1980: Oxalá - in the selection of the Venice Biennale
  • 1984: O Lugar do Morto - Sony Prize for the best soundtrack at the Huelva Film Festival , Prize for the best male leading actor in Moscow
  • 1999: Jaime - Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival , Portuguese TV Prize Globo de Ouro for best film and best director
  • 2003: Os Imortais - Best Film in the “Detectives” category at the Law & Society Film Festival Moscow
  • 1998/1999: President of the “Best Screenplay” award committee of the European Broadcasting Union UER .
  • Jury member of the film festivals Toulon (1982), Católica / Italy (1989), the Canary Islands (2001) and Biarritz (2003)

literature

  • Jorge Leitao Ramos: Dicionário do cinema portugués 1962–1988. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, (pages 393-395).
  • A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema. 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ movies.nytimes.com
  2. ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 116.
  3. ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, pages 118–119.
  4. ^ Jorge Leitao Ramos: Dicionário do cinema portugués 1962–1988. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 394.
  5. ↑ uni-hamburg.de
  6. ↑ allocine.fr
  7. ↑ ica-ip.pt ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 231 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ica-ip.pt
  8. ↑ reuters.com
personal data
SURNAME Vasconcelos, António-Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saraiva de Barros e Vasconcelos, António-Pedro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leiria