Paths (Veredas)
Directed by César Monteiro.
With Margarida Gil, António Mendes, Carmen Duarte
Portugal 1978, 35mm, color, 116 min. Portuguese with English subtitles
For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glisteningly sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro’s mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.
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Junho 4th, 2010 at %H:%M
Hola,
ЎGracias por el artнculo. Cada vez que quieres leer.
Gracias
BernieR
Julho 11th, 2010 at %H:%M
Hi! I consider this movie one of the best of his whole art. One, because of its natural quality; then, becasue of the time when it was made. Absolutely genious and original.
Just one question: why is the atricle in english? People that take care of the site are english?
Thank you
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