PRESS REVIEWS OF
CASA DE CINEMA’S SHORTS
"Be moved by the story of a tomato (Ilha das
Flores (Island of Flowers), 1989, by Jorge Furtado) or by the memories of an
eighty-year old woman (Dona Cristina perdeu a memória (Dona Cristina lost her
memory), 2002, by Ana Luiza Azevedo). Discover why a paralyzed woman hires a
detective to follow her husband (Deus Ex-Machina, 1995, by Carlos Gerbase) or
what makes a prisoner face his guards (O dia em que Dorival encarou a guarda
(The day Dorival faced the guard), 1986, by Furtado and José Pedro Goulart).
More than short curious stories, the Casa de Cinema’s Shorts DVD set makes the
great work by the short movie makers from
(SHORT BUT
STRIKING, Carlos Heli de Almeida, Jornal do
Brasil, 13/12/05)
"The
magnificent Casa de Cinema’s Shorts boxed set collects a sample of the
best in Brazilian shorts. Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre presents the
work of directors such as Ana Luiza Azevedo, Carlos Gerbase and Jorge
Furtado in four DVDs. Precious material to understand the effectiveness
of a genre".
(Revista Bravo, janeiro de 2006.)
"What
brings three filmmakers as different as these together, besides talent,
is critical humanism, the same awareness that ‘men make their own
history, but not as they want to, but according to circumstances
inherited and transmitted by the past’, as a certain bearded nineteenth
century German philosopher, now sadly forgotten, once said. "In its
best moments, Casa de Cinema has been reaching an ideal balance between
technical competence, critical eye, invention and entertainment. The
"Casa de Cinema’s Shorts" boxed set documents this journey, begun in
1987, and made also of failures and mistakes, like any journey worth
the while".
(José Geraldo Couto, Folha de São Paulo, 27/12/05)
"Since it began almost twenty years ago, Casa de
Cinema de
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"The
four discs in this set contain 38 fiction and documentary shorts and
television specials. The first one thousand units sold also include the
episodes 'Anchietanos' and 'Meia Encarnada Dura de Sangue'
(Blood-hardened Scarlet Sock) from Globo TV network series
'Comédias da Vida Privada' (Comedies of Private Life) and 'Brava
Gente' (Brave People). Too much good stuff for such short space".
(LANGUAGE PEARLS AND HUMANISTIC LESSONS, Luiz Zanin
Oricchio, O Estado de São Paulo, 05/12/2006)
"Brazilian
cinema lives on a lean diet and for the last twenty years it has gone
through all possible stages in blowing up and shrinking down. Since,
1987, however, Rio Grande do Sul hasn’t been able to complain about
slim pickings. That was when Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre came along,
formed by moviemakers who started working together in the early
eighties, and who have supplied the market with quality movies produced
and distributed by the company".
(THE SMALLEST BIGGEST BRAZILIAN MOVIES, Veja Rio)
"C'est
avec un plaisir non dissimulé que nous accueillons l'edition en
DVD, non seulement de l'integrale des courts métrages de Jorge
Furtado mais aussi celle des courts de la Casa de Cinema (...),
société de production collective, trés active dans
le sud du Brésil, à Porto Alegre. (...) Il est important d'en
signaler la variété de genres et de tons: de la
comédie au documentaire en passent par le plus kitsch du film
historique comme par des propos révoltés (sur
l'avortement dans VENTRE LIVRE d'Azevedo ou sur la mémorie dans
MEMÓRIA de Roberto Henkin). La dénonciation politique
côtoie le simple divertissement offert par les épisodes de
feuilleton-télé; le fim de montage s'oppose à la
ficción axée sur le sexe (comme dans certains films de
Gerbase)."
(COMME À LA MAISON, revista BREF, Paris, mai-jun 2006)
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