João César Monteiro Collection - 11-DVD Box Set ( Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen / He Goes Long Barefoot that Waits for Dead Men's Shoes / Fragments of an Alms-Film / What Will I Do with This Sword? / Trails (Paths) / Silvestre ) ( Hovering Over the Water / Recollections of the Yellow House / The Last Dive / God's Comedy / The Hips of J.W. / The Spousals of God / Snow White / Come and Go )

João César Monteiro Collection - 11-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen / He Goes Long Barefoot that Waits for Dead Men's Shoes / Fragments of an Alms-Film / What Will I Do with This Sword? / Trails (Paths) / Silvestre
Alternate Title: Hovering Over the Water / Recollections of the Yellow House / The Last Dive / God's Comedy / The Hips of J.W. / The Spousals of God / Snow White / Come and Go
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Surround )
Portuguese ( Mono )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Portugal ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1468 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1969 - 2003 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
João César Monteiro

Written By:
João César Monteiro
Esquilo
James Joyce
Maria Velho da Costa

Carlos D'Oliveira
Friedrich Hölderlin
Luís Vaz de Camões
August Strindberg
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Robert Walser

Actors:
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen ..... Herself
Antónia Brandão ..... Mário
Carlos Ferreiro ..... Pawnbroker
Carlos Porto ..... Lívio
Elsa Figueiredo ..... Extra
Helena Gusmão ..... Mónica
Luís Miguel Cintra ..... (voice
Manuel Gusmão ..... (voice
Paula Ferreira
Jorge Silva Melo
Lídia Franco
Nuno Júdice
João César Monteiro
Manuela de Freitas ..... Maria
João Perry ..... João Lucas
Dalila Rocha ..... The wife
Catarina Coelho ..... Lucas' Daughter
Fernando Soares ..... The Husba
Maria Clementina Monteiro ..... Narrato
José Gabriel
Luís Miguel Cintra
Maria Velho da Costa
José Diogo
Margarida Gil
Carlos Mena
Manuela de Freitas
Luís de Sousa Costa
Francisco Domingues
Carmen Duarte
Sílvia Gomes Ferreira
João Guedes
Antonio Mendes
Maria de Medeiros ..... Sílvia / Silvestre
Teresa Madruga ..... Susana
Luís Miguel Cintra ..... Pilgrim / Knight / D. Raimundo
Jorge Silva Melo ..... D. Paio
João Guedes ..... D. Rodrigo
Xosé Maria Straviz ..... Alferes (lieutenant)
Ruy Furtado ..... Matias
Raquel Maria ..... Marta
Cucha Carvalheiro ..... Elsa
Rogério Vieira ..... Mule-driver
Afonso Vasconcelos ..... Hunchback
Manuela de Freitas ..... (voice
João Perry ..... (voice
José Mário Branco ..... (voice
Hermínio Rebelo ..... (voice
Laura Morante ..... Laura Rossellini
Philip J. Spinelli ..... Robert Jord
Manuela de Freitas ..... Sara
Georges Claisse ..... Antoine
Teresa Villaverde ..... Rosa
Sérgio Antunes ..... Roberto
Rita Figueiredo ..... Maria
Conceição Senna ..... Senhora Amélia
Haddy Moss ..... Chefe dos assaltantes
Gerd Volkmar ..... 1.° assaltante
Frederick Ooms ..... 2.° assaltantes
João César Monteiro ..... Stavrogui
João César Monteiro ..... João de Deus
Manuela de Freitas ..... Dona Violeta
Ruy Furtado ..... Senhor Armando
Teresa Calado ..... Menina Julieta
António Terrinha ..... Doctor
Violeta Sarzedas ..... Neighbor in Living Room
Madalena Lua ..... Maid
João Bénard da Costa ..... Dairy Cle
Sabina Sacchi ..... Mimi
Inês de Medeiros ..... Mimi's Voic
Manuel Gomes ..... Laurindo
Maria Ângela de Oliveira ..... Madre de Deus
Maria da Luz Fernandes ..... Neighbor with Baby
Vasco Sequeira ..... Taverner
José Nunes ..... Kennel Attendant
Fabienne Babe ..... Esperanca
Canto e Castro ..... El
Francesca Prandi ..... Rosa Bianca
Rita Blanco ..... Ivone
Dinis Gomes ..... Samu
Catarina Lourenço ..... Bailarina (Salomé)
Luís Miguel Cintra ..... Hyperion Extracts Reade
Teresa Roby ..... Muhher de Eloi dobrada
André Engel ..... Herod
Ana Vaz da Silva ..... Herodeas
Ana Paula ..... Carmen Miranda
Cláudia Teixeira ..... Joanin
Manuela de Freitas ..... Judite
Raquel Ascensão ..... Rosarinho
Gracinda Nave ..... Felícia
Patrícia Abreu ..... Alexandra
Saraiva Serrano ..... Sr. Tomé
Maria João Ribeiro ..... Carmen
Bruno Sousa ..... Bruno
Ana Reis ..... Menina da Janela
Maria Ester Caldeira ..... Peixeira
Rui Luís ..... Sr. Evaristo
Dinis Gomes ..... Linguiç
Glicínia Quartin ..... D. Antónia
Sandra Figueiredo ..... Beatriz
Hugues Quester ..... Jean de Dieu, Lucifer
Pierre Clémenti ..... Paul, Henrique
Joana Azevedo ..... Catarina, Ariane
Jean Watan ..... Henrique, João de Deus
João César Monteiro ..... Dieu, Max Monteiro
Manuela de Freitas ..... Puta
Graziella Delerm ..... Marianne
Luís Pavão ..... Critico de Teatro
Alexandre Melo ..... Jornalista da tê-que-não-vê
Myriam Szabo ..... Bailarina
Pipo Tartaglia ..... Violonista Cego
Mariya Makhanko ..... Uriel
Inês Barros ..... Egyn
Sofia Sousa ..... Amaimon
Gracinda Nave ..... Outros Anjos e Arcanjos, Samael
Rita Durão ..... Joana de Deus
Joana Azevedo ..... Elena Gombrowicz
José Airosa ..... Omar Raschid
Manuela de Freitas ..... Sister Bernarda
Luís Miguel Cintra ..... God's Messenger
Ana Galvão ..... Leon
José Mora Ramos ..... Inspector Pantaleão
Fernando Mora Ramos ..... Psychiatrist
Fernando Heitor ..... Butler Vasconcelos
João Listz ..... Sparafucile
Jean Douchet ..... Bardamu
Filipa Araújo ..... Celestina
Sofia Marques ..... Nun
Teresa Negrão ..... Inês
Maria Do Carmo Rôlo ..... Branca de Neve
Ana Brandão ..... A Rainha
Reginaldo da Cruz ..... O Príncipe Estrangeiro
Luís Miguel Cintra ..... O Caçador
Diogo Dória ..... O Rei
José Airosa
Miguel Borges
Rita Durão
João César Monteiro ..... João Vuvu
Rita Pereira Marques ..... Adriana / Urraca
Joaquina Chicau ..... Custódia
Manuela de Freitas ..... Fausta
Ligia Soares ..... Narcisa the Antigo
José Mora Ramos ..... Senhor Zé Aniceto
Rita Durão ..... Jacinta
Maria Do Carmo Rôlo ..... Bárbara the Policewoman
Miguel Borges ..... Jorge Varela Vuvu
Rita Loureiro ..... Marina
Ana Isabel Strindberg ..... Zulmira
Tiago Diaz ..... Miúdo do Acordeão - boy accordionist
Ana Brandão ..... Eva Sigar
Rui Luís ..... Padre - priest
Vítor Silva Tavares ..... Man at the Funeral

Synopsis:

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1969) Moving salutation from one genius to another.
He Goes Long Barefoot that Waits for Dead Men's Shoes (1970) The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door...
Fragments of an Alms-Film (1972) Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector.
What Will I Do with This Sword? (1975) The Carnation Revolution is threatened by the interference of certain foreign powers that it sees a danger.
Trails/Paths (1978) A series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers...
Silvestre (1982) A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel...
Hovering Over the Water (1986) Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer.
Recollections of the Yellow House (1989) The impoverished tenant of a Lisbon boarding-house, João de Deus is one of the great miseries of the movies.
The Last Dive (1992) Samuel stares at the waters of Tagus, he is there to put an end to his life...
God's Comedy (1995) João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados.
The Hips of J.W. (1997) Two actors performing in Strindberg's 'Inferno' as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well.
The Spousals of God/God's Wedding (1999) All seem lost, and then, in an old, lonely and icy park, two shadowy figures meet...
Snow White (2000) How presumptuous of the prince to have disturbed Snow White in her beauty sleep...
Come and Go (2003) Joao Vuvu, a widower with no family, lives alone in his large house...

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1969)
João César Monteiro's very first film, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1969), is the moving salutation from one genius to another that lasts a little longer than 17 minutes.

He Goes Long Barefoot that Waits for Dead Men's Shoes / Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço (1970)
The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes.

Fragments of an Alms-Film / Fragmentos de um Filme-Esmola (1972)
Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants. His father expressly desired that his son film this eccentric daily life in 8 mm format. Maria's wages are dilapidated to the last penny by this amateur, monstrous, family movie production.

What Will I Do with This Sword? / Que Farei eu com Esta Espada? (1975)
The Carnation Revolution is threatened by the interference of certain foreign powers that it sees a danger. In the river Tagus 'hover' the Allied ships NATO , among which stands out the aircraft carrier U.S.

Trails / Veredas (1978)
For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glisteningly sharp political edge, Veredas traces a pattern of cruelly repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Veredas anticipates Monteiro's mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.

Silvestre (1982)
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant, Silvestre is both radically feminist and fascinated with the dark, primal logic of the paternal order. Monterio's earliest collaboration with producer Paulo Branco was among his first to receive international acclaim, with special attention given to Silvestre's daring use of deliberate artifice-front projected backgrounds, extended freeze-frames, theatrical performances-to capture the fatalistic rhythm and dream logic of myth. A masterpiece of faux naïveté, Silvestre overflows with miraculous events and wonderment at the misery and violence of the world: artificial limbs, wounded feelings, betrayal, redemption, and people who aren't what they seem-including some who aren't even human.

Hovering Over the Water / À Flor do Mar (1986)
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrives looking for Robert.

Recollections of the Yellow House / Recordações da Casa Amarela (1989)
The impoverished tenant of a Lisbon boarding-house, João de Deus (played to perfection by the writer/director) is one of the great miseries of the movies. He muses, in a dispassionate but doomy voice-over, on death, illness, solitude, and the bedbugs that make a nightly attack on his testicles. As the seedy, sexually frustrated, but occasionally kindly protagonist proceeds towards a pathetic, cracked assault on his harridan landlady's daughter, it's hard to know whether to laugh, weep or simply slit your wrists. In the end, it's that wry, detached sense of comic absurdity that saves the film from plunging into maudlin miserabilism. Using long, often static takes, an elliptical narrative, and stark but stylish compositions, Monteiro sidesteps psychodrama to produce something altogether cooler, more thought-provoking, and more perverse. The film makes its slow way towards the appallingly run-down mental hospital of the title, and a denouement as fantastic as it is subversive. A fascinating, quietly caustic critique of the outmoded mores of Portugal's petite bourgeoisie.

The Last Dive / O Último Mergulho (1992)
What young Samuel was doing at the time of night on the deserted quey, nobody will ever know for sure. In fact, when Mr. Eloi, an old retired sailor, approached him, he was staring at the waters of Tagus. Tired as he was of his days, Mr. Eloi could not have thought any other way. Samuel was there to put an end to his life. And when Samuel, symbolically or not, invites him to share his last dive, Eloi, as a last resort, stops him from throwing himself in the river and, saying that Heaven can wait, takes him on a tour of the city. So the two characters go off for two long nights of roving during St. Anthony festivities. In the night club they meet Esperanca, a dumb prostitute who is Eloi's daughter and the other ladies of the night - Rosa Bianca and Ivone. The friendship that grows between them is sealed in a boarding house of ill-repute. Young Samuel discovers love. The Tagus no longer inspires him...

God's Comedy / A Comédia de Deus (1995)
João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding world, however, does not comply with his decaying vision of lust and decay as a way of achieving his purpose.

The Hips of J.W. / Le bassin de J.W. (1997)
Two actors performing in Strindberg's 'Inferno' as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.

The Spousals of God / As Bodas de Deus (1999)
All seem lost, and then, in an old, lonely and icy park, two shadowy figures meet: those of Deus and a Messenger. God's Messenger give the hoodlum (the temporary state of poor Joao de Deus) a case stuffed with money. He then leaves, his mission accomplished. Joao counts the bank notes. The silent waters of nearby lake are disturbed when a heavy object plunges in. Joao goes to see what is happening. A young girl (Joana) is drowning. Joao throws himself into the water and carries the unconscious Joana off to a convent. How responsible! Joao de Deus returns to the park to recover the case and it's precious contents: happily, nothing has been touched... And thus continue the adventures of Joao de Deus.

Snow White / Branca de Neve (2000)
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser's 'anti-fairy tale.' Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains the screen almost totally black in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen, and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will, and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden's life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins-infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser's lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the 'death of the author' so central to postmodern literary criticism.

Come and Go / Vai e Vem (2003)
Joao Vuvu, a widower with no family, lives alone in his large house that shows signs of wealth in an old neighborhood of Lisbon. He is not very sociable, if at all, and every day repeats the same routine. Yet when his son gets out of prison, it provokes a desire for regeneration in Joao.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 May, 2013.