(Happiness is...)
(35 mm, 72 min, color, 1995)
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Four visions of happiness. DREAM: A
writer in crisis gets unexpected help from his wife, but only when she
is asleep. CAKE: A couple argues while she bakes a cake for the
celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. CROSS: A respectable and
well-married man, a grandfather, meets an ex-girlfriend from 50 years
before. ROAD: Two couples wanting a quiet weekend on the mountain range
cross paths with a grumpy trucker with no brakes.
PHOTO by Alex Sernambi:
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Directors: Jose Pedro Goulart ("Dream"), Jose Roberto Torero ("Cake"), Cecilio Neto ("Cross") and Jorge Furtado ("Road")
Executive Producers: Annette Bittencourt and Everson Colossi Nunes ("Dream"), Zita Carvalhosa ("Cake"), Cecilio
Neto ("Cross"), Nora Goulart and Luciana Tomasi ("Estrada")
Written by: Jose Pedro Goulart ("Dream"),
Jose Roberto Torero ("Cake"), Cecilio Neto ("Cross") and Jorge
Furtado ("Road")
Cinematographers: Joel Lopes
("Dream" and "Cross"), Katia Coelho ("Cake"), Alex Sernambi ("Road")
Art Directors: Fiapo Barth and Fernando
Leonetti ("Dream"), Billy Castilho ("Cake"), Fiapo Barth ("Road")
Music: Leo Henkin ("Dream" e "Road")
Editors: Luis Alberto Kley ("Dream"), Paulo Sacramento
("Cake"), Cristina Amaral ("Cross"), Giba Assis Brasil ("Road")
A Production by
Zeppelin Filme e Vídeo ("Dream")
Super Filmes ("Cake")
CN Cine ("Cross")
Casa de Cinema PoA ("Road")
Main Cast:
Cassiano Ricardo ("Dream")
Denise Fraga ("Dream")
Jofre Soares ("Cake")
Vanda Lacerda ("Cake")
Paulo Autran ("Cross")
Assunta Perez ("Cross")
Pedro Cardoso ("Road")
Débora Bloch ("Road")
Awards
23rd
Gramado Festival, Latino Cinema, 1995:
Best Film (Popular Jury), Best Brazilian Film
3rd
Cuiaba Film and Video Festival, 1995:
Best Film (Popular Jury)
28th
Brasilia Film Festival, 1995:
Best Film (Popular Jury), Best Actress (Denise
Fraga, in the episode "Dream")
Reviews
"Boldness
makes it worthwhile: the episodic feature filme HAPPINESS IS… took home
two of the three most important Kikito awards and became the biggest
winner of the twenty-third Gramado Film Festival. The cooperative and
authorial production showed the filmmakers’ maturity. They have been at
the forefront of Brazilian short features. The acceptance felt
yesterday showed them to be able to charm the audience today".
(Amir Labaki, FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO, 21/08/95)
"With
four ideas in their heads, one camera in their hands and a lean budget,
the filmmaking quartet finally achieved the golden dream of Brazilian
cinema: making a feature-film. (...)The best of the bunch, by far, is
Road, written and directed by Jorge Furtado. On the big screen, Furtado
recreated the charm and frivolity of two young high-middle-class
Brazilian couples who are planning activities for their weekend in the
countryside. Meanwhile, heading towards them is an ugly, dirty, mean,
cursing scrap-towing trucker. At the fleeting crossing of such
disparate fates, Furtado makes happiness contingent on luck. He ends up
making a great short movie".
(Revista Veja, 20/09/1995)
Available Versions
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35mm with english subtitles |
VHS in portuguese | VHS with english subtitles |
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