The Portuguese film director José Fonseca e Costa died this Sunday morning at the Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon, victim of pneumonia, caused by leukemia. Was the friend and Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos filmmaker who confirmed the PUBLIC death.
José Fonseca e Costa, symbol of generation of Cinema Novo in the 1970s and film director as Kilas, the Bad Tape (1981) , No Shadow of Sin (1983), Ballad of Dog Beach (1986) or Five Days, Five Nights (1996), was 82, and found himself filming a new movie with Paul White of production,
“The movie is filmed three quarters and only stopped when he no longer had the strength,” confesses Paulo Branco to PUBLIC. “Even he let me directions on how the film should be completed and what I saw the filmed material is absolutely amazing.” Of its global work Paul White highlights the decisive role that he and other figures of the generation of 60 and 70, were in the revival of cinema in Portugal, and also the fact that it created “remarkable films that tried to reach the public and managed many them. For him the argument was critical, telling the story was central, and there also have supported figures like David Mourao Ferreira, Mario de Carvalho and José Cardoso Pires. “
For Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos he was one of the last great filmmakers of the “New Portuguese cinema and one of the most important,” ending “the victim of a wicked contests system and juries that did not let him shoot for years. The history of Portuguese cinema is the history of movies that is not done. I am shocked by the death of a friend and a filmmaker with great work. I’m sorry I have not been able to finish this his new film. When I know is only a third to be done. It is a great loss. “
The filmmaker turned out to be very relevant in the 1980s, mainly by the success of Kilas, the bad tape, offering to Mario Viegas an unforgettable role in a film that was powered by a utopia : make a film of great public Portuguese film lovingly caring. In his films, the argument was crucial. It was a storyteller. Let’s say until 1988, with Without a sin , The Dog Beach The Ballad and The Next Woman , using the import of foreign actresses as Victoria Abril, Assumpta Serna and Fernanda Torres, the director was building as he knew and how could a “middle cinema”.
The actress Lia Gama, protagonist of Kilas, the bad tape , a film that marked the career you left it forever attached to the director because of the character he played, Pepsi-Rita. “But I made more movies,” says the actress to PUBLIC, including No Shadow of Sin , also with Fonseca e Costa and Mario Viegas. “The Kilas was very important for we had a huge success. It was made with many difficulties – and this story is more than counted – having been stopped because there was no money to finish it. But the end result was extraordinary and in the 80s was really a stone in the pond, “says the actress.
” He died a great filmmaker, “she says,” and this is see Demons Alcazarquivir and all his later work. It is the loss of a major filmmaker in the panorama of Portuguese cinema that comes with the New Cinema and the formation of the Portuguese Film Center. Often the circumstances with which it works in Portugal had many unfortunate interruptions, should have shot more, but dies me fundamentally a great friend. “
The critic and film historian Jorge Leitão Ramos, who last a biography of José Fonseca e Costa, he says he was the only filmmaker of his generation “to get concliar the will of the public with the fact of wanting to make an auteur cinema. The generation of Cinema Novo ones were stationed on auteur cinema with little public, and there were others who surrendered to the ticket office. He got both. I never made films that were not the author, managing to still obtain some historical successes at the box office. “
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