Writing 03 Mai (Lusa) – The documentary “Stop me suddenly thought” focuses on mental hospital Ferreira de Conde in Porto, debuts today and the director Jorge Pelicano told Lusa that was surprised by the lucidity he found in the institution.
“Stop me suddenly thought” had its world premiere at DocLisboa last year, but is now available in room, starting today, cinema City Alvalade in Lisbon and UCI Arrábida, in Vila Nova Gaia, having provided views in the Guard, in Figueira da Foz and Viseu later this month.
Tonight, the National Theatre of St. John in Porto, still hosts a special session attended by users of the psychiatric hospital, which is exhausted from last weekend.
“It interests me, the cinematographic point of view, portraying places or unknown institutions. Psychiatric hospitals are part of this range of the unknown, because, for decades, have never been open spaces to society in general, let alone the movies” , told Lusa Jorge Pelicano.
The film seeks to be “a lot of dialogue and try to realize that there is a lot of clarity in the midst of that thought, that brain has a disease,” adds the director.
“Stop me suddenly thought,” whose title comes from a poem Angelo de Lima, the actor Miguel Borges enters the hospital and stays there for three weeks to prepare a play about madness, ending to be part of the cast of another piece of the more than 130 years of the institution.
“It’s a very difficult film to make, with many limitations, the camera does not walk free, the director can not walk free if there is a censorship is also mine. Sometimes there were users who had no idea what I was doing. There were stories that I could not tell because I did not know how to tell the “acknowledged Jorge Pelicano.
This is because, in addition to the hospital itself having to carry out its mission of protection for users, one of the premises of documentary “was trying to tell a story, but one that could respect those users who are there.”
“It’s a tough film, but also with some laughter, because there are characters that are funny and that help us laugh and ridding some toughness that the film itself has. It is a love story, because there is much love that movie. Miguel Borges felt much love, much love, much love, “stressed the director.
Since the presentation in DocLisboa, the film has received numerous awards such as the Grand Prix of the Portuguese Cinema paths, which also won the Audience Award and Best Director, in addition to premium Signes de Nuit festival.
TDI // MAG
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