Documentaries

LINHA VERMELHA

Red Line
José Filipe Costa
P 2011
80 min
V'11

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Linha vermelha is a documentary about the making of late Thomas Harlan’s 1975 documentary Torre Bela, which charted a workers’ occupation of the hunting estate of the same name, 80 kilometres from Lisbon, and the subsequent creation of an agricultural cooperative. The film turned the occupation into an emblematic chapter of the Portuguese revolution, in such a way, suggests Costa, that the film and the event “have blurred with each other.” Rather than merely documenting the protest, he argues that Harlan orchestrated events in front of the camera, evidencing in support of his case a behind-the-scenes audio recording of the shoot, as well as interviews with surviving members of the rebels and film crew. (...) Harlan’s intention was not to vilify his subjects, necessarily, but to make the blandly straightforward take-over more dramatic. (Demetrios Matheou)

Credits
  • José Filipe Costa
  • Paulo Menezes
  • Pedro Pinho
  • João Ribeiro
  • Ricardo Leal
  • Olivier Blanc
  • João Braz
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