(Those two)
(35 mm, 75 min, color, 1985)
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Raul is extroverted and a joker. He is coming
out of a frustrated marriage and spends his time listening to and playing
melancholy boleros in the small apartment where he lives. Saul is shy,
critical and bitter. He is coming out of an engagement that lasted so long
it had to end. He has recently tried to commit suicide. Raul and Saul are
two ordinary, sensitive, lonely guys and they meet at their first day of
work in a government office.
PHOTO
by Cesar Charlone:
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Director: Sérgio Amon
Executive
Producer: Sérgio Lerrer
Written
by: Sérgio Amon, Roberto Henkin and Pablo Vierci
Cinematographer:
Cesar
Charlone
Music by:
Augusto
Licks
Production
Coordinators: Rudi Lagemann and Marlise Storchi
Editor:
Roberto Henkin and Sérgio Amon
Assistant
Directors: Giba Assis Brasil,Alex Sernambi and Rudi Lagemann
Distribution: Casa de Cinema PoA
Main Cast:
Pedro Wayne
(Saul)
Beto Ruas (Raul)
Suzana Saldanha
(Clara Cristina)
Prizes
1st
Rio Cine Festival, 1985:
Special Prize
of the Industry.
1st
Fortaleza Film Festival, 1985:
Best Film (Official
Jury and Critic's Prize), Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor (Pedro
Ruas), Best Original Music, Best Sound.
- 11th International
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, San Francisco, USA, 1987:
the only brazilian
film in competition.
Reviews
"AQUELES DOIS (THOSE TWO) was the biggest surprise of Rio Cine Festival,
the best Brazilian film of 1985, at least up until now. Although it is
being sold as a story about homosexuality, THOSE TWO is much more than
that, it is a film about the human condition, loneliness, emptiness, dissatisfaction,
life in the big city. Sérgio Amon was able to remain faithful to
Caio Fernando Abreu’s short story and, at the same time, to expand it,
even giving it a more open, more optimistic conclusion. The fact that the
film is a production from Rio Grande do Sul, from outside the Rio - São
Paulo area, lends it even more charm, the special charm of the accents,
of the behavior of the province. Another merit of the film is the sure
hand in the direction of actors, who are unknown to us, but highly competent."
(Rubens Ewald
Filho, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, agosto de 1985)
"The director (...) managed to use the raw material of the short story,
which is full of suggestion and subtlety, and also its atmosphere of psychological
drama and disillusion. Fortunately the director did not give in to the
temptation of turning Caio Fernando Abreu's concise text into a gay love
story. (...) In the last shot, those two are having a good laugh, as if
they were saying 'we don't give a damn', while their colleagues at the
office end up, as in the tale, 'unhappily ever after'. And finally, I should
also mention the soundtrack, both for the adequate musical commentary by
Augusto Licks and for the boleros sung by Dalva de Oliveira."
(Sérgio
Bazi, CORREIO BRASILIENSE, Brasília, 30/09/85)
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