Fleurette

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Movie
Original title Fleurette
Country of production Portugal
original language Portuguese
Publishing year 2002
length 80 minutes
Rod
Director Sérgio Trefaut
script Sérgio Trefaut
production Maria João Mayer
François d'Artemare
camera João Ribeiro
cut Pedro Duarte, Jorge Divo, Andreia Bertini, Pedro Ribeiro
occupation
  • Sérgio Trefaut
  • the mother
  • the brother
  • the father

Fleurette is a 2002 film by the Portuguese - French director Sérgio Tréfaut .

action

Here the director cuts down conversations with his French mother, which they conduct in Brazilian Portuguese . They also travel to their mother's place of residence in the Portuguese Alentejo , where they meet the director's father, his mother's great love according to her statement, and they visit their mother's old school on the French Côte d'Azur . The mother tells her son, sometimes reluctantly, about her life, which she leads from German-occupied France at the side of her German-friendly husband to the Third Reich , then to her great love, the wealthy, communist Portuguese from the Alentejo, with whom she in front of the Salazar-Dictatorship fled to Brazil and raised their children there. They are divorced, he now lives in Cuba while she lives in Portugal again.

The result is a personally drawn portrait of European and then Brazilian history of the 20th century. Tréfaut searches for the mother's consciousness in the respective situations, for her emotional world, her ideas of family, politics and lifestyle. The headstrong woman is reluctant to reveal her ideas and experiences, and her statements contrast with the replies of her son, but also the comments of her son, who lives in Brazil, and her former husband, whom she unemotionally calls the love of her life.

reception

The film won the grand prize at the Les Ecrans Documentaires film festival in 2003, the prize for best editing at Doclisboa in 2002, and the prize for best foreign film at the Extrema'Doc documentary film festival in Cáceres (Spain) in 2006.

In 2007 the film was released on DVD in the series Colecção Documentários Portugueses by Midas Filmes .

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.lesecransdocumentaires.org , accessed January 18, 2013
  2. ↑ www.midas-filmes.pt , accessed on January 18, 2013