A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Sundays at the House of Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira Spectator
With Catarina Vasconcelos (filmmaker) and Guilherme Blanc (curator and researcher) 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€
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Discounted admission: 50% for Amigos de Serralves, youth, students (with ID) and over 65
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Seventh session of the film programme Um Filme Falado: Os Temas de Oliveira, with conception and moderation by Anabela Mota Ribeiro. This film programme is dedicated to several themes which are present in Manoel de Oliveira's oevre. This film session deals with the theme Death, with the screening of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), followed by a conversation with the filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos and the curator and researcher Guilherme Blanc, moderated by Anabela Mota Ribeiro.
DEATH
5 OCT | SAT | 17h00
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1946 | 104’
With: Catarina Vasconcelos (filmmaker) e Guilherme Blanc (curator and researcher)
One of the first color films of The Archers, the partnership between the Englishman Michael Powell and the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death was a initally suggested by the British government, to ease Anglo-American relations during World War II. In the film, Peter, a young English pilot about to crash, talks to June, an American radio operator, falling in love with her, before jumping to death over the English Channel. But due to the heavy fog over the channel, an emissary from ""the other world"" fails to catch Peter, allowing him to survive and to follow his love. Meanwhile, ""the other world"" recognizes the mistake and sends an angel to escort Peter to his destiny. The lightness with which Powell and Pressburger deal with the theme of Death is a true challenge on the severity of the theme, as they offer a hopeful and beautiful point of view on a theme which is perennially disquieting.
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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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