CINEMA
História Interminável & Annette
FIMFA Lx23 AT CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA
THE NEVERENDINGSTORY by Wolfgang Petersen
27 May at 3pm (Sat)
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With: Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes Special Effects and visuals: Brian Johnson (director), Colin Arthur (creatures, special effects makeup supervisor) Age guidance: +6 / Germany, United States of America, 1984, 94 min. / With Portuguese subtitles
The NeverEnding Story is one of the unforgettable films for those who grew up in the 80s. Many will remember the iconic song from the film, sung by Limahal, which was part of the videos played at weekends on music chart television programmes, where many imagined flying in the skies with Falkor...
Wolfgang Petersen adapted Michael Ende’s children’s story for this charming fantasy film. It tells the amazing adventure of Bastian in "Fantasia". A world inhabited by a racing snail, a narcoleptic hang-glider bat, the warrior Atreyu, a Childlike Empress, the luck dragon Falkor, and Rockbiter. All this exists inside a book opened by Bastian in a bookshop. In books everything is possible even the advance of "NOTHING", a dark force. A magical film from beginning to end.
ANNETTE by Leos Carax
CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA - MUSEU DO CINEMA - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro
29 May at 9.30pm (Mon)
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With: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg Puppet aesthetic designer: Estelle Charlier Puppet technical designer: Romuald Charnet
Age guidance: +14 / France, Germany, Belgium, 2021, 140 min. / With Portuguese subtitles First presentation at Cinemateca
Leos Carax opened the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with Annette. A romantic, haunting and dramatic musical, a total cinema experience, and his first English-language film, starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver. Based on an original idea by Sparks and featuring a soundtrack composed by the duo, the brothers Ron and Russell Mael. Present-day Los Angeles. Henry is an outspoken stand-up comedian, Ann a world-famous singer. They’re a happy celebrity couple, living life in the glare of the spotlight, but their world is turned upside-down by the birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny.
One of the particularities of Annette is that the character that gives the film its name is a puppet. And this fact was only revealed at the premiere of the film. The French company La Pendue, composed by Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet, created this puppet. They have already performed twice at FIMFA with Poli Degaine (2008) and Tria Fata (2017), where the audience was dazzled by the puppet manipulation and their beauty.
