Third 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 session presents the theme Impotence / Frustration, with the screening of Federico Fellini's 8 ½ (1963), followed by a conversation with the artist Noé Sendas and the literature teacher and writer Raquel Ribeiro, moderated by Anabela Mota Ribeiro.

IMPOTENCE / FRUSTRATION

11 MAY | SAT | 17h00

8 ½

Federico Fellini | ITA | 1963 | 168’

With: Noé Sendas (artist) and Raquel Ribeiro (literature teacher and writer)

One of the most representative examples of modernism in film, with its title referring to its director's (at the time) eight features and one short-film, 8 ½ was Fellini's response to his own creative crisis. With Marcello Mastroianni in the role of Guido Anselmi, an anguised director with difficulties in directing a science-fiction film, 8 ½ is openly self-referential both of the filmmaking practice and of Fellini himself. The analogy between Guido's frustration with Fellini's own creative impotence becomes even more evident by the film's baroque aesthetics, with its constant camera movements, energetic mise-en-scène and Nino Rota's waltzes. A confessional filmmaker by nature, Fellini exhibits his own interior weaknesses, which were surpassed by the film's eventual success.