Design for Living
Sundays at the House of Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira Spectator
With Clara Rowland (professor of literature) and José Maria Vieira Mendes (dramatist) and moderation by Anabela Mota Ribeiro
Access to the House of Cinema Auditorium is via Rua de Serralves nº 873, 30 minutes before the start of the session.
Ticket: 3€
Discounted admission: 50% for Amigos de Serralves, youth, students (with ID) and over 65
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Opening session of the film cycle A Talking Picture: The Themes of Oliveira, with conception and moderation by Anabela Mota Ribeiro. This film cycle, dedicated to several themes featured in Manoel de Oliveira's filmography, opens with the theme Woman, with the screening of Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living (1933). It will be followed by a conversation between professor of literature Clara Rowland and dramatist José Maria Vieira Mendes, with moderation by Anabela Mota Ribeiro.
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DESIGN FOR LIVING
Ernst Lubitsch | USA | 1933 | 91’
Guests: Clara Rowland (professor of literature) and José Maria Vieira Mendes (dramatist)
Ernst Lubitsch was one of the most important filmmakers working in American comedy. Design for Living is one of his first incursions against the work he had been developing in musical comedy, due to the emergence of sound in film. Design for Living follows the relationships between a woman and two men, namely the dynamics of the woman, Gilda, who can't decide between her two friends George and Thomas, who are both in love with her. Therefore, they engage in a three-way relationship, conjugal, friendly and problematic in equal ways. Loosely inspired in a Noël Coward play, Design for Living presents several key elements of the famous ""Lubitsch touch"", with its elegant mise-en-scène, his ability with actors and sharp dialogues. The film's candid, progressive openness on sexual morals, clearly demonstrating Lubitsch's modernity, was only possible because the Production Code, Hollywood's self-censorship system, was only enforced one year after the film's release.
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Anabela Mota Ribeiro nasceu em 1971 em Trás os Montes. Vive e trabalha em Lisboa. Fez licenciatura e mestrado em Filosofia na Universidade Nova de Lisboa. No doutoramento, que frequenta, prossegue o estudo do escritor brasileiro Machado de Assis. Foi visiting research fellow da Brown University em 2019. Publicou os livros “O Sonho de um Curioso” (2003), com 14 entrevistas, "Este Ser e não Ser - Cinco Conversas com Maria de Sousa" (2016), "Paula Rego por Paula Rego" (2016), "A Flor Amarela - Ímpeto e Melancolia em Machado de Assis" (2017), "Por Saramago" (2018) e "Os Filhos da Madrugada" (2021 e 2022). Jornalista freelance, colaborou com diversos jornais e revistas. É autora e apresentadora de programas de televisão. Os mais recentes: Curso de Cultura Geral (2017 e 2018, RTP2), e Os Filhos da Madrugada (2021 e 2022, RTP3). Enquanto programadora cultural, colabora com instituições de referência. Entre outros projectos, assinou, com José Eduardo Agualusa, a curadoria da Feira do Livro do Porto em 2017, 2018 e 2020. É membro do Conselho Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Desde 2013 disponibiliza o seu arquivo no site www.anabelamotaribeiro.pt. Gosta de cinema desde sempre.
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