(Winter)
(Super- 8 mm, 88 min, color, 1983)
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At 24, our hero lives on his own, he has a
degree in journalism but works at an estate agent’s. He identifies himself
with the gloomy city where he lives, with his apartment filled with records
and books, with the films he sees. But he has little in common with his
girlfriend, his friends, his parents, his work colleagues. He cannot and
makes no effort to reconcile the different worlds where he lives. But this
situation cannot last for long, and he will have to provide an answer at
the end of twelve cold days in Porto Alegre.
PHOTO
by Roberto Henkin:
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Director: Carlos Gerbase
Written by:
Carlos Gerbase
Cinematographer:
Roberto
Henkin
Art Directors:
Marta
Biavaschi and Luciana Tomasi
Production
Coordinator: Luciana Tomasi
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Assistant
Directors: Giba Assis Brasil and Alex Sernambi
Distribution: Casa de Cinema PoA
Main Cast:
Werner Schünemann
(the hero)
Luciene Adami
(Mariana)
Marta Biavaschi
(Lúcia)
Marco Antônio
Sorio (Milton)
Cleide Fayad
(Cláudia)
Luciana Tomasi
(Isabel)
Prizes
7th
Gramado Super-8 Film Festival Nacional de Cinema Super-8, Gramado, 1983:
Best Film.
Reviews
"Essentially a psychological drama" which in itself is a daring thing to
do, not only in terms of Super-8 films, but also in terms of Brazilian
cinema - WINTER has a dramatic structure that surprises the viewer who
is used to the colloquial tone of their previous films. (...) Gerbase turns
Porto Alegre into his own Manhattan, in a poetic chronicle that accompanies
the main character’s feelings. (...) The memory of happiness takes you
to a different setting - Montevideo - just as cold, but simultaneously
close and distant (in scenes of rare sensibility, in the beautiful communion
of images and words)."
(Régis
Müller, CORREIO DO POVO, Porto Alegre, 29/04/83)
"The cinema of Rio Grande do Sul has in WINTER its best production yet.
Coupling narrative fluidity with a flawless use of the resources of time
and memory, Gerbase constructs a film that speaks to all audiences. The
young journalist (...) is not an unusual type. He is one of the survivors
of the seventies, a man who is frightened at the lack of perspectives of
his times. (...) It is not without reason that the group of friends is
torn between Milton’s (Marco Antônio Sório) nihilism and Lúcia’s
(Marta Biavaschi) indecision. All of them take detours, casual ways out
of that moment. Carlos Gerbase proves to be the most intellectual of the
filmmakers of Rio Grande do Sul."
(Júlio
Ricardo da Rosa, ZERO HORA, Porto Alegre, 05/05/83)
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