(Deus Ex-machina)
(35 mm, 25 min, color, 1995)
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Dolores, a beautiful, rich, paraplegic woman
hires the detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and
discover the truth about his relationship with a young woman called Alice.
A story of lies, false clues and obscure motivations, where four characters
of doubtful morals try to appear honest to one another.
PHOTO
by Alex Sernambi:
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Director: Carlos Gerbase
Executive
Producer: Luciana Tomasi and Nora Goulart
Written
by: Carlos Gerbase
Cinematographer:
Alex
Sernambi
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Ricardo
Severo
Production
Coordinator: Daniela Dall'Agnol
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Director: Gustavo Fernández
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Luciene Adami
(Dolores)
Leverdógil
de Freitas (Otávio)
Werner Schünemann
(Inácio)
Daniela Schmitz
(Alice)
Prizes
23rd
Gramado Film Festival, 1995:
Best Film (Official
Jury, Critics Prize), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Edition, Best
Music, Best Actor (Leverdógil de Freitas); and 4 regional prizes.
28th
Brasilia Film Festival, 1995:
Best Film (Popular
Jury), Berst Screenplay, Best Edition, Prize for Cinematographic Language
Achievement
8th
International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1996:
Special Jury
Mention.
19th
Guarnicê of Cine-Video, São Luis, 1996:
Official Jury
Prize, Popular Jury Prize, Best Screenplay, Best edition.
13th
Rio-Cine Festival, Rio de Janeiro, 1996:
Best Screenplay,
Best Actor (Leverdógil de Freitas).
Reviews
"The audiences (of the Brasília Film Festival) simply loved it.
It received the biggest ovation since the beginning of the festival. It
deserves it. It is a noir story told with rare cinematic intelligence.
In a perverse lovers' game, an intricate case involving marital infidelity
and manipulation is constructed before the viewer's eyes, like a puzzle.
(...) The film is an example of how you can innovate without alienating
average audiences."
Luiz Zanin
Oricchio, O Estado de São Paulo, 1995)
"Enough heroes and villains! Filmmaker Carlos Gerbase creates, in DEUS
EX-MACHINA, a fascinating screenplay where there are only confused and
flawed human beings. The characters, each in his own way, have already
had every possible incident and accident along the way, and now, without
God and without the facility of oracles, they try to find reasons to keep
on living and lying."
(WONDERFUL
magazine # 26, October 1995)
Available versions
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| 35mm in portuguese |
35mm with english subtitles |
35mm with spanish subtitles |
16mm in portuguese |
DVD with multilingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese ("Historias de Amor e Morte") |
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