Despite being sick, José Fonseca e Costa did not want to fail to perform “Armpits” a film based on a story by Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca (published by Sextant in the book “Armpits and Other Stories indecent”) and Mario Botequilha argument . Was working “almost to the strength,” said last Lusa Paulo Branco, who was producing the film. “Fortunately he did not shoot all but almost, and we have all the elements to be able to finish it. Exercised what he liked most, which was his director activity until the end. “
“Armpits” will end the extensive filmmaker curriculum known for films like “Kilas, The Bad Tape” from 1980, with soundtrack by Sérgio Godinho and one of the largest national cinema blockbusters (at the time to overcome 100 thousand spectators).
The director died Monday morning after 82 years in the Hospital Santa Maria in Lisbon, “a victim of pneumonia, following a pre-leukemia”, advanced the “Expresso”. “One of the most important figures of Portuguese cinema,” continues Paul White, “a work that leaves everyone knows and is expected now that can be reviewed.”
José Fonseca e Costa was born in Caala, Angola in June 1933 and moved to Lisbon in 1945 where he arrived to attend law school but not over – to devote to activities related to the cinema. Translated books by authors such as Sergei Eisenstein and began to do a film critic in magazines such as “Image” and “Seara Nova”. He lived in Italy where he apprenticed as an assistant in the filming of “Eclipse” by Antonioni, released in 1962.
A few years later he returned to Lisbon to direct commercials and tourist documentaries, such as the short film “The Metaphysics of Chocolates,” 1967, filmed in places like Regina factory and the reading of the poem “Tobacconist” by Fernando Pessoa or “The City” on the city of Évora.
“The Comment”, 1972, with Maria Cabral and Jose Viana, marks his debut in fiction and stands as one of the most representative works of the New Cinema, the avant-garde movement in the Estado Novo. In the post-April 25 participated in the collective film “The Guns and the people” in 1975, which it followed “The Devils of Alcazarquivir” about colonialism, and selected for the “Quinzaine des Réalisateurs” the Festival Cannes.
After “Kilas, The Bad Tape ‘with an argument of his own, another of its commercial success was” The Dog Beach of Ballad “from 1985, a novel adaptation of the same name by José Cardoso Pires, with Raul Solnado and her sister, actress Cucha Carvalheiro.
In 1996, he directed “Five Days, Five Nights”, with Victor North and Paulo Pires, an adaptation of the novel by Alvaro Cunhal (under the pseudonym Manuel Tiago). In 2009 he returned to pay homage to Fernando Pessoa with “The Mysteries of Lisbon or What the Tourist Should See”.
In 2014, the Portuguese Film Academy honored him with the Career Award.
The director of the funeral takes place tomorrow, Tuesday.
With Lusa
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