(Dona Cristina lost her memory)
(35 mm, 13 min, color, 2002)
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Antonio, an 8 year-old boy, discovers that his neighbour Cristina, 80, is always telling different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the day's saints. And Dona Cristina believes that Antônio can help her recover her lost memories. |
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
Executive Producers: Nora Goulart and Luciana Tomasi
Written by: Ana Luiza Azevedo, Jorge Furtado and
Rosangela Cortinhas
Cinematographer: Alex Sernambi
Art Director: Fiapo Barth
Music by: Gustavo Finkler
Editor: Giba Assis Brasil
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Lissy Brock (Dona Cristina)
Pedro Tergolina (Antônio)
Prizes
30th
Gramado Festival, 2002:
Best Director, Best Art Director.
13th
International Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo, 2002:
Popular Jury Award, Canal Brasil Aquisition Prize.
35th
Brasilia Festival, 2002:
Best Short Film (Critic's Prize), ANDI Childhood Cinema Prize.
3rd
Fluxus, International Film Festival on the Internet, 2002:
Best E-cinema (fiction, experimental, videoart).
Critics
"DONA CRISTINA
PERDEU A MEMÓRIA (DONA CRISTINA HAS LOST HER MEMORY), which plays
with the time cycle using a moving children's toy (a wooden duck), is an
engaging film, illustrating the aesthetic ambitions and the jovial tone
which has made Rio Grande do Sul one of the main production centres of
short films in Brazil. In the screenplay she co-wrote with her fellow filmmaker
Jorge Furtado, Ana Luiza discusses the issue of an old woman's memory loss
through her relationship with an 8 year-old boy. The sensibility of her
film has won it the warmest applause among the short films so far."
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, Rio de Janeiro, 16/08/2002)
http://jbonline.terra.com.br/papel/cadernob/2002/08/15/jorcab20020815003.html
"The cinema
of Rio Grande do Sul, always well represented in the short films competition,
once again proved the point with DONA CRISTINA HAS LOST HER MEMORY. Ana
Luiza Azevedo, one of the members of the acclaimed Casa de Cinema, shows
the birth of the friendship between an 8 year-old boy and his neighbour,
an 80 year-old woman. She lives in an old people's home next to the boy's
house. She is losing her memory and tells different stories about her life
every time she meets the boy. (...) The film has irresistible magic."
(Alessandro Giannini, Revista SET, 16/08/2002)
http://www.uol.com.br/setonline/sessao_extra/02_08_gramado_2002_04.shtml
"DONA
CRISTINA HAS LOST HER MEMORY, by Ana Luiza Azevedo, conquered the audience,
with its tender reflection about childhood and old age. Differently from
other shorts, in this one heart comes before reason. And the film is better
for it."
(Luiz Zanin Oricchio, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, 24/11/2002)
http://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/noticias/2002/nov/24/70.htm
"DONA
CRISTINA HAS LOST HER MEMORY is a delightful short about the encounter
of an 8 year-old boy and a lovely scatty brained old lady. The friendship
between them - established across a rickety wooden fence - will help her
recover memories from her life. Director Ana Luiza Azevedo treats the characters
with moving tenderness and great sensitivity. A great short, even better
than her previous one, Three Minutes, a Brasilia Film Festival award winner."
(Sérgio Bazi, revista virtual CANDANGO, 24/11/2002)
http://www.candango.com.br/festbrasilia2003/fest_brasilia2003.cfm?id=2285
Available Versions
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35mm with english subtitles |
DVD with multilingual subtitles ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese |
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