Fifth session of the Film and Talks Programme Um Filme Falado: Oliveira e a História do Cinema, conceived and moderated by Anabela Mota Ribeiro. This film programme, dedicated to the relationship between various significant moments and trends in the history of cinema and the work of Manoel de Oliveira, continues with the theme Comedy, with a screening of Sam Wood's film A Day at the Races (1937). After the screening, a conversation will take place with dramaturge Maria Inês Marques and writer Richard Zimler, moderated by Anabela Mota Ribeiro.

5 JUL | SAT | 5PM

COMEDY

A DAY AT THE RACES

Sam Wood | USA | 1937 | 111’

The seventh film by the Marx Brothers, and the second under the MGM banner, A Day at the Races came out of a wave of great popularity and success for this family of comedians. The plot, although chaotic and typical of the brothers' adventures - in this movie, Groucho, Harpo and Chico are a trio – doesn't have the flair of their Paramount period, although it still retains the same absurd tone. From the bet on a horse race, through which they manage to save the farm of Judy, its hypochondriac owner, to her treatment by Groucho Marx, here a veterinarian posing as a doctor, these and other adventures in A Day at the Races are staged in a sober, counterpoint-style by the direction of Hollywood veteran Sam Wood.