(Silver salt)
(35 mm, 96 min, color, 2005)
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Cátia, a successful economist, has to rethink her life
when her boyfriend Veronese, a polemic filmmaker, suffers a heart attack,
leaving her an obscure past, a photography supply store, some short movies and
lots of screenplays in the computer. |
Director: Carlos Gerbase
Executive Producer: Nora Goulart
e Luciana Tomasi
Written by: Carlos Gerbase
Cinematographer: Jacob Sarmento
Solitrenick
Art Director: Fiapo Barth
Music by: Tiago Flores
Assistant Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
Production Coordinator:
Marco Baioto
Editor: Giba Assis Brasil
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Maria Fernanda Cândido (Catia)
Camila Pitanga (Cassandra)
Marcos Breda (Veronese)
Bruno Garcia (Valdo)
Janaína Kremer (Mirabela)
Nelson Diniz (Joao Batista)
Julio Andrade (Holmes)
Awards:
33rd Gramado Festival, 2005:
Best Editing
Reviews:
"Between
suffering and joy, Carlos Gerbase’s new movie goes from grieving to
life-affirming, like a symphony which starts in a slow tempo and
finishes with the joy of starting over. A panel, therefore, made to
highlight the fact that art, be it produced by someone or watched by a
spectator or felt by a listener, is not just the result of a
professional task. It’s not just one movie we are seeing on the screen
and not just three either. There are more, in the beginning and in the
end, when performers talk to the audience, and also in those movies
which Maria Fernanda Cândido’s character makes with her
imagination after reading those movie suggestions, as we could call the
screenplays".
(Hélio Nascimento, Jornal do Comércio, 30/09/2005)
http://jc.plugin.com.br/colunistas.aspx?pCodigoColunista=133
"SAL
DE PRATA / Silver Salt is the creative maturity of the maker of INVERNO
(Winter) (1983) and TOLERÂNCIA (Tolerance) (2000). It is his most
cinematographically advanced work; unfortunately, we live in time where
mediocrity is lauded and invention such as this called pretentiousness:
Gerbase knows the kind of cinema he wants to make and makes it with an
ease unseen by the myopia of some. It is a beautiful movie, made at the
wrong moment in Brazilian cinema. (...)The web of movies within movies
gets tangled up with the web of relationships without any narrative
effort, because Gerbase is master of his craft; despite speaking about
the confusion in people’s minds, Gerbase at no points loses his train
of aesthetic thought, offering the audience a show as lithe as it is
clear in its unveiling of visual metaphors".
(Eron Duarte Fagundes, DVD Magazine, 29/09/2005)
http://dvdmagazine.virgula.com.br/Fala_Eron/sal_de_prata.htm
"One
of the most striking moments is the beginning of the movie. Gerbase
decided to make an impact with a scene that deserves to be watched from
its very first moment. Well-planned, the moment creates complicity with
the audience that goes beyond visual discourse. It shows force, but
also makes room for an intelligent narrative sequence. For that, he has
Camila Pitanga’s talent, sensuality and charisma".
(Marcos Santuario, Correio Do Povo, 24/09/2005)
http://www.cpovo.net/jornal/ftarde/n305/html/04o9amor.htm
"SAL
DE PRATA, the new movie from Gaúcho filmmaker Carlos Gerbase,
starts with a scene where Camila Pitanga talks to the camera, facing
the audience. Her voice becomes panting, she looks down and
moans. It’s oral sex. Gerbase shot an orgasm with suggestion
alone. It’s strong work by Camila. (...)It’s an instant classic of a
long, uncut shot, with an effect comparable to that of – keeping in
mind the time difference – Norma Bengell’s famous full frontal nudity
in Ruy Guerra’s Os Cafajestes (The Unscrupulous Ones).
(Luiz Carlos Merten, O Estado de São Paulo, 23/09/2005)
http://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/cinema/noticias/2005/set/23/116.htm
"Carlos
Gerbase’s feature film is, one could say, a meta-movie, that is, a
movie commenting moviemaking itself. Because of that, the first scene
with beautiful Camila Pitanga talking to the camera about cinema in
orgasmic poses is a good opening salvo for SAL DE PRATA’s tone. One of
Gerbase’s fortes is actor direction. Maria Fernanda Cândido is
great as the widow who discovers lost screenplays in a filmmaker’s
computer".
(Paulo Ricardo Kralik Angelini, revista virtual Agumento, 19/08/2005)
http://www.argumento.net/gramado/index_2005.shtml
Available versions
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