João Botelho

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João Botelho

João Botelho (born May 11, 1949 in Lamego ) is a Portuguese film director .

Live and act

Botelho was early active in film clubs in Porto and Coimbra, where he studied engineering. In 1974 he broke off his studies and enrolled in the film school of the National Conservatory in Lisbon . He worked as a film critic and graphic artist until he first directed in 1976.

With Conversa acabada he filmed Fernando Pessoa's friendship with Mário de Sá-Carneiro . He won his first film awards (“Glauber Rocha” award at the Figueira da Foz film festival , Juri Grand Prize at the Antwerp Festival ) and the Cahiers du cinéma named the film one of the best in 1982.

Botelho finally established himself in the criticism of 1985 with Um Adeus Português ("A Portuguese Farewell"). It is the first feature film to deal with the taboo subject of the Portuguese colonial war (1961–1974). In Portugal after the Carnation Revolution , the military had nothing against the film, but after 11 years it was still difficult for them to talk about this past. The film shows the scenes in black and white that take place in the African bush of the early 1970s, analogous to the old war footage on television of the time, while the scenes in Lisbon from 1985 are in color. Instead of elaborate war scenes, restrained representations of the main actors (among them the muse of Novo Cinema , Maria Cabral ) determine the critical film, which is above all characterized by silent sadness. It reflects the mood that prevailed in Portugal in 1985, a decade after the faded noise of the colonial war and the exchange of blows between ideologies after the revolution. The film premiered at the London Film Festival , won a Tucano de Ouro at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival , the OCIC Award at the Berlin Film Festival and first prizes at festivals in Cartagena, Salsomaggiore, Belford and Pesaro. The film found distributors u. a. in Great Britain and France and is still shown at festivals, such as the 12th Jeonju Film Festival 2011 in South Korea .

In the years that followed, João Botelho made numerous, very different films. His over-the-top, biting satire Tráfico (“Traffic”) from 1997 received the attention of critics, as did his intense, sensual documentation in 2005 about the nature reserve of the Ria Formosa in the Algarve . Occasionally he also works for television and theater.

At the end of his film Corrupção in 2007 there were big differences between Botelho and the producer. Botelho's cut is 17 minutes longer than the producer's final version, and neither did they reach an agreement on the setting. So the film comes into the cinemas without the name Botelhos and yet it will be its most popular production. His second most successful film at the box office, Films do Desassossego (“Film of Unrest”), his adaptation of Fernando Pessoa's Book of Unrest, followed a long way behind . He owes this success not least to his own commitment: dissatisfied with the fact that his previous film A Corte do Norte (the film adaptation of the historical novel of the same name by Agustina Bessa-Luís ) did not make it to the cinemas inland, he made himself with the only one Distribution copy on the way and showed it in cinemas in the big and remote cities alike, and then spoke to the audience. His demonstrations organized in this way were very well attended, such as the completely sold out week in the Centro Cultural de Belém .

He is a holder of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique in the rank of commander, which was presented to him on June 10, 2005 by Portugal's President Jorge Sampaio .

Filmography

  • 1976 O Alto do Cobre (short film)
  • 1976 Um Projecto de Educação Popular (short film)
  • 1977 Os Bonecos de Santo Aleixo (Doc.) (Premiere at the Cahiers du cinéma film week in Paris)
  • 1978 Alexandre Rosa (short film, with Jorge Alves da Silva)
  • 1980 Conversa Acabada ("The Other One") (Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival )
  • 1985 Um Adeus Português ("A Portuguese Farewell") (Premiere at the London Film Festival , contribution to Festival do Rio de Janeiro, Berlin Film Festival , MoMA , Belford, Cartagena, Salsomaggiore, Pesaro)
  • 1987 Tempos Difíceis ("Hard Times")
  • 1991 No Dia dos Meus Anos ("On my birthday") (Premiere at the Locarno Film Festival , commissioned work for RTP / ARTE )
  • 1993 Aqui na Terra ("Here on Earth") (in competition at the Venice Film Festival )
  • 1994 Três Palmeiras ("Three Palm Trees") (Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, appointment of the European Capital of Culture Lisbon)
  • 1996 13 Films X 3 ' (TV report / RTP)
  • 1998 Tráfico ("Traffic") (Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival competition , Hamburg Film Festival , Haifa , São Paulo , Valencia)
  • 1999 Se a Memória Existe (short film (video) on the 25th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution , premiere at the Venice Film Festival)
  • 2001 Quem és Tu? (in competition at the Venice Film Festival)
  • 2001 As Mãos e as Pedras (short film (video) for the opening of the European Capital of Culture Porto )
  • 2003 A Mulher que Acreditava ser Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América ("The woman who believed she was the President of the United States of America") (Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival)
  • 2005 A Luz na Ria Formosa (doc., Video / film festivals DocLisboa , Cinéma du Réel / Paris, Torino Film Festival / Turin, Viennale / Vienna, Festival dei Popoli / Florence ).
  • 2005 O Fatalista ("The Fatalist") (Toronto, Venice, Seville , São Paulo, Washington, DC Film Festivals )
  • 2006 A Baleia Branca, Uma Ideia de Deus (documentary, video for the Moby Dick production at the Teatro S.Luiz in Lisbon)
  • 2007 A Terra Antes do Céu ("The land before the sky") (doc., Video to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the death of Miguel Torga , DocLisboa, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata , FID Marseille , Panorama Film Fest Lisbon)
  • 2007 Corrupção (not drawn by him)
  • 2009 A Corte do Norte (Premiere at the New York Film Festival)
  • 2009 Para que este mundo nao acabe ("Journey to Barroso") (doc.)
  • 2010 Films do Desassossego ("Film of Unrest")

Honors and mentions

literature

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book accompanying the DVD edition for Fernando Pessoa's 120th birthday, ZON Lusomundo 2008
  2. ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. 1st edition. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, p. 121.
  3. ↑ http://eng.jiff.or.kr/b20_screen/20_screening_detail.asp?idx=2526  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / eng.jiff.or.kr  
  4. ↑ http://www.lesinrocks.com/actualite/actu-article/t/12387/date/1999-03-10/article/trafico-joao-botelho/
  5. ↑ http://www.revues-plurielles.org/_uploads/pdf/17_5_32.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.film.at/a_luz_na_ria_formosa_the_light_on_ria_formos/
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dn.pt
  8. ↑ Archive link ( 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. (Position 5)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ica-ip.pt
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  11. ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. 1st edition. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, pp. 152–153.
  12. ↑ http://aeiou.visao.pt/cinema-filme-do-desassossego-esgota-no-ccb-joao-botelho-programa-duas-sessoes-extra=f574255
personal data
SURNAME Botelho, João
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lamego