Shorts
Como Fernando Pessoa salvou Portugal
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
Eugène Green
P, FRA, B 2018
27 min
V'18
There are traces of a deep and ironic love for saudade and the city of Lisbon in the work of Eugène Green. Yet, even after writing a book on the country’s great modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, a film dealing with the man and one of his heteronyms comes as a mild surprise from the artist who is usually drawn to baroque remains in the present. In funny and sublime movements the film captures a struggling artist between his business aspirations and poetical principles as well as being a witty portrait of Portugal in 1927, a country torn between the seductions of American soft drinks and catholicism. (Patrick Holzapfel)
Credits
- Manuel Mozos - History teacher
- Carloto Cotta - Ventura, jung
- Diogo Dória
- Mia Tomé
- Eugène Green
- Raphaaël O’Byrne
- Henri Maïkoff
- Benoît de Clerck
- Stéphane Thiébaut
O Som e Fúria, Noodles Production, Les films du Fleuve
AGENCIA – Portuguese Short Film Agency
DCP
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