Languidness of August (1984)
Cesare Pavese’s The Beach (1945) in Jorge Silva Melo
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2021.v23i.12366Keywords:
Portuguese cinema, Italian literature, Cesare Pavese, Jorge Silva Melo, materialitiesAbstract
In 1987, the Portuguese filmmaker Jorge Silva Melo (b. 1948) filmed an adaptation of La Spiaggia, a novel that the Italian writer, translator and screenwriter Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) published in 1942. It was one among many adaptations of the Pavesian work for cinema, but the very first in Portuguese cinema. August, the film, would debut in 1991. However, the name of Pavese would only be credited in the promotional materials after the premiere. Such absence does not prevent – it rather incites, since it arouses curiosity – a close-reading in parallel of the two works, in an attempt to see in them marks of authorial expressiveness and a very particular and symbolic reading that the Portuguese filmmaker seems to make of the book by Pavese. Both works share particular narrative elements; but mainly they have stylistic traits in common, which we believe this comparative reading underlines. In seeking their identification we sought the published testimonies of both authors, as well as a film analysis centered on the treatment of images, sound, music, materiality, construction of dialogues, appeal to voyeurism and the performance of the main actors.
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