Cinéthèque | This dear month of August
THIS DEAR MONTH OF AUGUST By Miguel Gomes 2008 | Portugal, France | 2h22 | VOSTF With Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho, Andreia Santos, Armando Nunes, Manuel Soares, Emmanuelle Fèvre, Diogo Encarnação, Bruno Lourenço, Maria Albarran, Nuno Mata With a fiction project that he has never managed to finance, the director of this film, embodied by himself, is a little stubborn, a little obsessed with direct cinema, a little distant from his commitments to his producers. Between local legends and popular balls, firefighters and motorcycle clubs, this mutant film shifts from ethnography to fiction and pretence, lovingly caressing the light or more pronounced madness of those who inhabit this world. Miguel Gomes was a guest artist-professor in 2012-2013. Screening in partnership with the Triennale Art & Industry - Human Warmth. Session led by Pascale Cassagnau, art historian and head of audio-visual collections at the CNAP (National Center for Plastic Arts).