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Change of Life [New Restoration!]

October 2, 2020 - October 4, 2020

Virtual screening, free for Everyone!

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Screening link active 10/2-10/4

Paulo Rocha’s haunting second feature, Change of Life, is a beautifully-told story of a young man who returns from abroad to his small fishing village to discover that much has changed. Inspired by his work with Manoel de Oliveira, Rocha “cast” the local villagers as themselves, interspersed with experienced actors led by the great Isabel Ruth who would go on to become an Oliveira regular and an iconic presence in Pedro Costa’s Ossos. The poetry of the local vernacular is captured in the textured dialogue written by fellow Portuguese filmmaker Antonio Reis, who met Rocha through Oliveira. The film was a critical and commercial success upon release, though it would effectively be the last film Rocha made for nearly two decades. New Digital Restoration by the Portuguese Cinematheque, supervised by Pedro Costa.

(Paolo Rocha, Portugal, Portuguese w/ Eng. Sub, 94 min, 1966)

Organizer

Union Cinema
Phone
414-229-4070
Email
cinema@uwm.edu