Yesterday Venice froze. This is the term frozen. The escalation of John Salaviza by adolescence mountain terraces is the best film that the festival has seen. It is also the most beautiful and poignant Portuguese films of recent years, the confirmation of a great filmmaker. Who picked him, and this Mountain , declined in Cannes, was the week of the Venice Critics perhaps the most precious of parallel sections.
In a year when there are One Thousand and One Nights , by Miguel Gomes, now comes another monument of the young Portuguese cinema. 2015 so even the year of the film and not the Portuguese audiovisual. A year in a state of grace. Mountain is the 35mm camera wandering on the body of a 14 year old (“almost 15, I later this month,” says menacingly), David (played by a boy discovered by Salaviza named David Mourato, perhaps face more movies in years), holed up between dark apartment of Olivais and the streets of a hot summer Lisbon with sounds of urban disease. Outside, has a sick grandfather, an almost absent mother and a love triangle with his best friend, Rafa (precisely to Rafa Rafa , the short Salaviza who gave him the Golden Bear in Berlin) and a neighbor, Paulinha.
They are bodies between the sun and the darkness, moving bodies. David is that last stage of adolescence. And fires everywhere, no one controls. Salaviza is not worried about building the narrative weapons and adventures with beginning, middle and end. It is as if the sequences were constructed out of nowhere, as if those bastards did themselves to plan choreography. There are a thousand movie ideas that give miraculous plans, almost the order of the trance. – Nobody shoots concerts like that, no one shoots the sexual tension like that
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