Ganhar a Vida
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Ganhar a Vida |
| Country of production | Portugal |
| original language | Portuguese , French |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | João Canijo |
| script | João Canijo Pierre Hodgson Celine Pouillon |
| production | Paulo Branco |
| music | Alexandre Soares |
| camera | Mário Castanheira |
| cut | João Braz |
| occupation | |
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Ganhar a Vida ( Portuguese for: Earning Life) is a feature film made in 2001 by the Portuguese director João Canijo .
action
Cidália is 36 years old and has lived for many years with her husband Adelino and their two children, next to her sister Celestina, in a suburb of Paris. Your life is a lot of work, thrift, and worry. The Portuguese guest worker community tries to be inconspicuous and consoled itself over the sadness of everyday life with some modest leisure activities, which are often intended to satisfy the collective longing for home. The next generation, meanwhile, is caught between two stools, is confronted with drugs and crime, and looks to the future accordingly soberly without developing any real connection to Portugal. One night, Cidália's eldest son is shot dead by the police. Cidália's pain is accompanied by the growing anger that official explanations of the incident arouse in her. Threatened by the loss of all meaning in life, she begins to realign herself and defends herself against the docile apathy and compulsive silence of her compatriots.
The actors
With Ganhar a Vida, leading actress Rita Blanco returned to demanding acting after a series of light television productions, with her role of fate-struck Cidália in her simple and dreary life, convincingly played in every respect. At the side of the equally convincing teammates, especially Teresa Madruga and Adriano Luz , Rita Blanco captivates the audience. Your portrayal shows a simple, increasingly angry mother, but her upbringing and environment handicapped. The atmospherically dense film is characterized by the hauntingly played roles of adapted, strangely unbroken people in their dreary surroundings.
In Portugal, Rita Blanco was awarded a Globo de Ouro for her performance in Ganhar a Vida .
Twelve years later she played the role of a Portuguese guest worker mother in France again. Unlike Ganhar a Vida, Portugal, mon amour 2013 was a contemplative and cheerful, commercially extremely successful, Franco-Portuguese co-production.
reception
Ganhar a Vida was the first Portuguese feature film to focus on the Portuguese immigrants in France. After Lisbon and even before Porto, Paris is the second largest Portuguese city in terms of the number of Portuguese residents. Nevertheless, the public in Portugal knows little about the realities of life for the emigrated compatriots. This is also the result of the collective endeavors of the emigrants not to attract attention in their host country and to achieve a modest level of prosperity at home. The film shows the everyday life and the internal constraints and dilemmas of the Portuguese immigrant families. Only the tragic fate of her son finally brings Cidália against the tacit and adapted conventions.
The film screened at a number of international film festivals, including 2001 in the Un Certain Regard competition section of the Cannes Film Festival .
In 2004 the film was released on DVD in Portugal, by Lusomundo.
Web links
- Ganhar a Vida in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official film trailer on YouTube
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ganhar a Vida ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 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. the film on www.cinema.sapo.pt, accessed on November 5, 2013
- ^ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português. 1989-2003 . 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2006, p. 266ff ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
- ^ Awards for the film in the Internet Movie Database , accessed November 5, 2013
- ↑ Ganhar a Vida at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, accessed on November 5, 2013
