(Three minutes)
(35 mm, 6 min, color, 1999)
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Three minutes. The time it takes to pass the baton and run 1600 meters. The time it takes to boil an egg. The time it takes to make a decision that can change your life, before the coin drops. PHOTO by Carlos Gerbase: Lisa Becker |
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
Executive
Producers: Nora Goulart and Luciana Tomasi
Written
by: Jorge Furtado
Cinematographer:
Alex
Sernambi
Art Director:
Fiapo
Barth
Music by:
Leo
Henkin
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
A Casa de Cinema PoA Production
Main Cast:
Lisa Becker
(Marília)
Werner Schünemann
(the Magician's voice, in portuguese)
Sérgio
Lulkin (the Magician's voice, in english)
Prizes
27th
Gramado Film Festival, 1999:
Special Jury
Award for Regional Film.
10th
International Short Film Festival, São Paulo, 1999:
Popular Jury
Award, Espaço Unibanco Prize
7th
Cuiabá Film Festival, 1999:
Best Art Direction.
6th
Vitória Cine Vídeo, 1999:
Best Fiction
Film and Best Art Direction.
32nd
Brasília Film Festival, 1999:
Best Short
Film.
1st
Cinema Brasil Award (Ministery of Culture), 2000:
Humberto Mauro
Prize for the Best Short Film.
* 53rd Cannes
Film Festival, France, 2000:
The only brazilian
short film in the official competition.
8th
Capalbio Film Festival (Itália), 2001:
Haibun Prize
for The Best Creative Idea.
Reviews
"Three
Minutes is pure cinema: the fate of a couple is decided in the time a coin
phone call lasts, in the time it takes to run a relay race (seen on TV),
in the time it takes water to boil."
(José Geraldo Couto, Folha de São Paulo, 20/08/99)
http://www.riofilme.com.br/infoarq/2000/in0500_19.htm#2
"Ana Luiza
Azevedo had already made other good films about social issues, and here
she sends her message about the condition of women in today’s society through
a message left on an answering machine."
(M.J., Jornal do Brasil, 23/11/99)
"THREE MINUTES is a film with feminine sensitivity, directed with talent
and rigor. This is the time you can make a decision that can change a life
– or two, as it is the decision of a woman who must face the dilemma of
going away and leaving the man she loves or staying with him and being
frustrated. Beautiful and delicate."
(Luiz Zanin
Oricchio, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, 30/11/99)
http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/edicao/pano/99/11/29/ca2968.html
"THREE MINUTES, by Ana Luiza Azevedo, also deals with a socially eclipsed
figure – in this case, the wife of a traveling circus magician. Dusk lights
define the fate of this woman who is anxious because instead of having
a nomadic and adventurous life, hers is a sedentary and secure life. The
image of a trailer in a field, the figure of Mandrake painted on it and
the voice of the magician on the answering machine saying that not even
he can be in all places at all times, suggest an approximation with the
Fellinian imagery. (...) Three Minutes represents more than a private drama.
It is a sociological picture made with abundant imagination, sensitivity
and an unusually careful production design."
(Antônio
Gonçalves Filho, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, 02/03/2000)
http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/edicao/pano/00/03/01/ca2994.html
"Even more impressive, due to its mastery of the film language, is THREE
MINUTES, by the Brazilian Ana Luiza Azevedo, who, in a film lasting twice
as long as its title states, constructs a subtle evocation of the mental
landscape of a woman fallen victim to a childhood dream. All the films
in this program tell stories, or suggest them, none of them enunciate a
discourse, preferring to trust the direction and their particular means
to produce emotion and entertainment."
(Jean-Michel
Frodom, Le Monde 23/05/2000)
"Ana
Luiza Azevedo’s film lasts only three minutes, but it deals with two crucial
themes: a relationship breakup and the desire to find a better future."
(Juan Rodríguez Flores, La Opinión, Los Angeles, 28/07/2000)
Available versions
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| 35mm in portuguese |
35mm in english |
35mm in french |
DVD w/multilingual subtitles and audio ("Curtas da Casa") |
VHS in portuguese | VHS in english |
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