(Angelo has vanished)
(35 mm, 17 min, color, 1997)
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Two old friends meet after a long time and
plan to have dinner together, but then they lose sight of each other again
in a labyrinth of iron gates, fences and walls in a big city.
PHOTO by Alex Sernambi:
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Director: Jorge Furtado
Executive
Producer: Nora Goulart and Luciana Tomasi
Written
by: Rosângela Cortinhas and Jorge Furtado
Cinematographer:
Alex
Sernambi
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Leo
Henkin
Production
Coordinator: Leandro Klee
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Amabile Rocha
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Sérgio
Lulkin (José)
Antônio
Carlos Falcão (Ângelo)
Carlos Cunha
Filho (the guard)
Prizes
25th
Gramado Film Festival, 1997:
Best Art Direction,
Special Regional Prize.
4th
Vitória Cine Video Festival, 1997:
Best Art Direction.
7th
Curta Cinema Festival, Rio de Janeiro, 1997:
Multishow Aquisition
Prize.
5th
Cuiabá Film Festival, 1998:
Best Screenplay.
5th
Ceará Film Festival, Fortaleza, 1998:
Samburá
Prize (Best Film according to the Cineclubs Confederation), Best Editing,
Best Music Score.
16th
Uruguay Film Festival, Montevideo, 1998:
Special Mention.
Reviews
"Furtado returns with ANGELO HAS VANISHED, a study in urban paranoia. The
film actually makes you uncomfortable because of the realism it uses to
show people who are irredeemably separated by iron fences. A great work."
(Luiz Zanin
Oricchio, O Estado de São Paulo, 24/07/97)
http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/edicao/pano/97/07/23/ca2309.html
"Directed by the acclaimed Jorge Furtado, ANGELO HAS VANISHED starts very
well but ends abruptly and in an anticlimax, which is fatal in a short
film. (...) Of course there are many brilliant moments, such as the excellent
dialogs written by Furtado and the excellent editing by Giba Assis Brasil.
Even so, this is a ‘lesser’ Furtado."
(Paulo Camargo,
Gazeta do Povo, Curitiba, 11/08/97)
"ANGELO HAS VANISHED is a comical urban chronicle, with Kafkian traits,
about the odyssey of a young man who goes out to have dinner with a friend
(Angelo) and gets lost in the jungle of iron fences that the city has turned
into. The film drew enthusiastic responses from the audience during the
showing and lukewarm applause at the end. For the director, this happened
because the end is deliberately anti-climatic. 'The film does not end,
it fizzles out.' It is true. The audience’s interest is attracted by something
(what happened to Angelo?) that the film does not show, in order to highlight
the individualism of the protagonist. A bold choice for a film that describes
a world where, as the director puts it, 'the individual, when he is in
the public space, wants to keep his contact with the next person to a minimum'.
(José
Geraldo Couto, Folha de São Paulo, 11/08/97)
"Filmmaker Jorge Furtado’s journey is peculiar. After receiving international
acclaim for his short ISLAND OF FLOWERS (1989), he let others repeat his
formula to the point of exhaustion and went on to do something different:
experimenting with new narrative structures. In ANGELO HAS VANISHED (...)
there is a muffled tension between what comes into the film as if by chance
– the trash in the streets, the beggars, the nonsensical chit-chat of doormen
and cab drivers, urban decay – and the individualistic and banal journey
of the protagonist, who only wants to have dinner and go back home (...)
'The other' (be it the doorman, the beggars, the cab driver, and even his
friend Angelo) is only an obstacle the protagonist has to get rid of. While
he extracts the whole power from this confrontation between the individual
cocoon and the hostile reality of the space that was once public, Jorge
Furtado invests in a bold and almost suicidal choice of ending: the absence
of dénouement as a demonstration that the ‘other’ only gets in the
way of the protagonist. The urban odyssey ends when he eats a prosaic hot
dog."
(José
Geraldo Couto, Folha de São Paulo, 22/08/97)
Available versions
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| 35mm in portuguese |
35mm with english subtitles |
16mm in portuguese |
DVD with multilingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese ("Historias da Cidade") |
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