Luís Filipe Rocha
Luís Filipe Rocha (born November 16, 1947 in Lisbon ) is a director and actor of the Portuguese film .
Career
During his law studies at the University of Lisbon (graduated in 1971) he was an actor, assistant director and dramaturge for the student drama group Grupo Cénico da Associação de Estudantes (1967–1971). In 1970 he attended Adolfo Gutkin's acting classes at the Gulbenkian Foundation before appearing in front of the camera for José Fonseca e Costa in 1971 in O Recado , a key feature of the New Portuguese Cinema, Novo Cinema . After various activities in the cinema and theater in Brazil in 1973/1974, he joined the film collective Cinequanon , for which he made television films for the public television service RTP .
After his assistant director in 1975 with Peter Lilienthal's There is calm in the country (“Reina a Tranquilidade”), he shot his first own film for the Instituto Português de Cinema (today's ICA ). Barronhos was released in 1976 and is a socially critical film shot in the spirit of the Carnation Revolution about a murder case in one of the corrugated iron settlements on the outskirts of Lisbon.
In 1977 he founded the production company Prole Films . With Das Dorf Cerromaior ("Cerromaior", 1981) he filmed the novel Manuel da Fonsecas , and made Sinais de Vida ("Signs of Life", 1984), a film inspired by the work of Jorge de Senas that tried to combine documentation and fiction. While Cerromaior received a lot of praise (including prizes at the Figueira da Foz and Huelva festivals ), Sinais de Vida became his only financial and cinematic failure, and he went to Macau for a few years . After his return he directed Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (“Love and Little Toes”, 1992), his film adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Macau-born writer Henrique de Senna Fernandes (* 1923). His subsequent work as a director, the film adaptation of Jorge de Sena's novel Sinais de Fogo (“Fire Signs”), is one of the few films that deal with Portugal at the time of the Spanish Civil War and its Salazar regime, which was just consolidating . A group of young people spends the summer holidays in the seaside resort of Figueira da Foz, while the painstakingly filtered official news from Spain causes unrest among them, and leads some to brave commitments outside of official politics. With his following film, the father-son drama Adeus, Pai (“Goodbye, Father”) shot in the Azores , he set himself apart from the work of contemporary Portuguese directors, in which he did not focus on the social aspects but rather on the communication difficulties within the family.
After a 2001 thriller that dealt with the case of Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro , who had an accident at Camarate in 1980 under unexplained circumstances , Rocha dealt again with the communication barrier between young people and the in 2003 in A Passem da Noite ("The Passing of the Night") Adult world. 17-year-old Mariana is raped by a drug addict. Out of anger, shame, and fear of lack of understanding, she tries to hide the pregnancy and soon finds herself in a tremendous internal conflict of conscience when her rapist is wrongly accused of a murder that was committed when the rape took place. The film won an award for screenwriting and directing at the 2004 Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival .
His next film, A Outra Margem ("The Other Shore"), released in 2007, was nominated for various film awards, including the World Film Festival in Montréal and a Globo de Ouro in Portugal in 2008, and at the Guadalajara Film Festival in Mexico , where it won the Audience Award won. The film shows how majority society deals with marginalized groups, using the example of a depressed transvestite , a fun-loving 17-year-old suffering from Down syndrome and an unmarried mother.
reception
As one of the few players in Cinema Novo and Portuguese film in general, Luís Filipe Rocha did not come from the film club movement and was neither a commercial filmmaker nor a film critic. As an actor, he soon limited himself to occasional supporting roles, more out of a courtesy, while he developed his own handwriting in his directorial work. With one exception, his films received favorable reviews from critics, and many of them subsequently received international recognition. They are characterized by successful actor management, precise, calm photography and consistent scripts that cannot be taken for granted in Portuguese cinema.
Filmography
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literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989 - 2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7 .
- Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962 - 1988 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, ISBN 972-21-0446-2 .
- A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .
Web links
- Luís Filipe Rocha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema , 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 132
- ↑ http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?sucheNach=titel&wert=507247
- ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema , 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 133.
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 . 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 339.
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 . 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 534 f.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 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.
- ↑ http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/1500361/Luis_Filipe_Rocha
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733821/awards
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 . 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 534.
- ↑ http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?sucheNach=titel&wert=23343
- ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema . 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 133.
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| SURNAME | Rocha, Luís Filipe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon , Portugal |