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SAL DE PRATA (Silver Salt) opens nationwide
(23/Sep/2005)
SAL DE PRATA, a feature film by Carlos Gerbase, opens today in movie theaters around the country, with over 30 copies. The premieres took place September 12th in São Paulo and 23rd in Porto Alegre. The film won the Best Film Editing award at the Thirty-Third Gramado Film Festival.
SAL DE PRAT is a movie about movies. It shows us, through the story, what making movies is like: Veronese is a failed moviemaker who owns a photography supply store; he dates Cátia, an economist who works in finance. She has no interest in movies, but a sudden turnaround leads Cátia to explore the Veronese’s universe. Behind the human plot, the film discusses the film-to-digital format move.
The cast is widely known: Maria Fernanda Cândido, Camila Pitanga, Bruno Garcia and Marcos Breda play the leading roles. Since all characters are from Rio Grande do Sul (where the story takes place), the actors were trained so there wouldn't be any accent problems. To that end, Gerbase gave them CDs with dialogues recorded by actors from the state.
Sal de Prata was shot in only two months, from July to September 2004. Initially called "Screenplays Found in a Computer", the script was rewritten several times before the final version was completed. The images were shot in 35 mm and DV (Digital Video).
This is Carlos Gerbase’s fourth feature film. He has already released INVERNO (Winter) (1983), VERDES ANOS (Green Years) (1984) and TOLERÂNCIA (Tolerance) (2000), which was rated adults-only at the time. It is Casa de Cinema’s fifth feature film, after Tolerância (2000), HOUVE UMA VEZ DOIS VERÕES (Two Summers) (2002); O HOMEM QUE COPIAVA (The Man who Copied) (2003) and MEU TIO MATOU UM CARA (My Uncle Killed a Guy) (2004), the last three by Jorge Furtado.
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