PORTUGAL
2016 – 18’ – IN PORTUGUESE
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Synopsis
At dawn, a group of peasants tries to rescue the body of a young man from the inside of a well. Women veil their faces in silence while men endure the situation. In the centre of it all, a mother awaits her son's body. How can life cease to be when in nature there is an enduring renewal?
Teaser
DIRECTOR: Pedro Peralta
PRODUCTION: João Matos
SCENARIO: Pedro Peralta
CINEMATOGRAPHY: João Ribeiro
EDITING: Francisco Moreira
SOUND: Ricardo Leal - Miguel Martins
PRODUCTION DESIGN: João Paulo Santos
CAST:
Domicília Nunes
Ricardo Francisco
Alice Calçada
António Pote
António Eusébio
Daniela Toito
PRODUCTION
TERRATREME
João Matos
Tel. +351 212 415 754
joao.matos@terratreme.pt
DISTRIBUTION
SALES
PORTUGAL FILM – PORTUGUESE FILM AGENCY
Margarida Moz
Tel. +351 213 466 172
portugalfilm@indielisboa.com
CONTACT CANNES
TERRATREME
João Matos
Tel. +351 963 012 666
joao.matos@terratreme.pt
Beauty is not enough. It can also bewilder, question, recompose us. With two sequences shots, for which the term sublime is not overused, Ascensão is an invitation to a rare journey, a reconciliation between aesthetics and metaphysics, a bit in Pasolini’s footsteps: Christianity deconstructed through its pictorial entities, the contemplation of an awaking world (the bodies rise like the sun in the morning), precision of the technical gesture at the service of humble splendour. One mustn’t get away unharmed.
By Fabien Gaffez
