Actors Work

Trabalho de Actriz, Trabalho de Actor

Portugal

2011

82 Min

Color

1.33:1

Portuguese

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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DP João Canijo, Patrick Mendes, Mayanna von Ledebur, Mário Castanheira

CAST Rita Blanco, Nuno Lopes, Beatriz Batarda, Anabela Moreira, Marcello Urgeghe, Rafael Morais, Vera Barreto

Throughout a year’s work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to develop the most important scenes of that plot until it takes its ultimate form, in the film which results from this work. – Indie Lisboa

Director

João Canijo

João Canijo (born 1957) is a Portuguese film director. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Canijo is one of the most prominent Portugese filmmakers and stage directors of his generation. From 1980 to 1985 he worked as an assistant director to Manoel de Oliveira, Wim Wenders, Alain Tanner and Werner Schroeter, among others. In 1988, his first film Three Less Me was selected for the Rotterdam Film Festival. Since then his other films, such as Her Mother’s Daughter (1990), Black Shoes(1998), and Get a Life (2001), have met a significant success with the critics as well as the public in Portugal. —(http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~iatu2006/JoaoCanijo.htm)