O Labirinto da Saudade
Longshot invited Miguel Gonçalves Mendes (José e Pilar) to adapt to cinema one of the most lucid works of Portuguese culture - "Saudade's Labyrinth" (O Labirinto da Saudade, translated to English as…
O Labirinto da Saudade
Longshot invited Miguel Gonçalves Mendes (José e Pilar) to adapt to cinema one of the most lucid works of Portuguese culture - "Saudade's Labyrinth" (O Labirinto da Saudade, translated to English as "A Mythic Psychoanalysis of the Portuguese Destiny"), on a unique journey inside the brilliant mind of Eduardo Lourenço. At the age of 94, the writer and philosopher Eduardo Lourenço projects through his memory the questions that still remain in him today. Which traumas have defined us as Portuguese people? Who are we? What have we done? Which atrocities have we committed? Which path should we follow? These questions are the starting point to "O Labirinto da Saudade", a film about the "condemned nation since its inceptions to run out of dreams larger than itself", but also the celebration of the life and work of one of the greatest authors of Portuguese Culture. Narrated and starring Eduardo Lourenço himself, the documentary walks through his memory and the history of Portugal. Throughout the journey, he crosses paths with ghosts from our past and friends from his present - outstanding figures of the Lusophone culture such as Ãlvaro Siza Vieira (Portuguese acclaimed architect), José Carlos Vasconcelos (Portuguese writer), Diogo Dória (Portuguese lawyer and writer), Gonçalo M. Tavares (Portuguese writer), LÃdia Jorge (Portuguese writer), Ricardo Araújo Pereira (Portuguese comedian) and Gregório Duvivier (Brazilian comedian), who assume the role of interlocutors and drivers of the reflections written in the book.
O Labirinto da Saudade
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Longshot invited Miguel Gonçalves Mendes (José e Pilar) to adapt to cinema one of the most lucid works of Portuguese culture - "Saudade's Labyrinth" (O Labirinto da Saudade, translated to English as "A Mythic Psychoanalysis of the Portuguese Destiny"), on a unique journey inside the brilliant mind of Eduardo Lourenço. At the age of 94, the writer and philosopher Eduardo Lourenço projects through his memory the questions that still remain in him today. Which traumas have defined us as Portuguese people? Who are we? What have we done? Which atrocities have we committed? Which path should we follow? These questions are the starting point to "O Labirinto da Saudade", a film about the "condemned nation since its inceptions to run out of dreams larger than itself", but also the celebration of the life and work of one of the greatest authors of Portuguese Culture.
Narrated and starring Eduardo Lourenço himself, the documentary walks through his memory and the history of Portugal. Throughout the journey, he crosses paths with ghosts from our past and friends from his present - outstanding figures of the Lusophone culture such as Ãlvaro Siza Vieira (Portuguese acclaimed architect), José Carlos Vasconcelos (Portuguese writer), Diogo Dória (Portuguese lawyer and writer), Gonçalo M. Tavares (Portuguese writer), LÃdia Jorge (Portuguese writer), Ricardo Araújo Pereira (Portuguese comedian) and Gregório Duvivier (Brazilian comedian), who assume the role of interlocutors and drivers of the reflections written in the book..