Branca de Neve (2000)

Snow White

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.

Branca de Neve

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Ana Brandão
Ana Brandão
as A Rainha
Luís Miguel Cintra
Luís Miguel Cintra
as O Caçador
Diogo Dória
Diogo Dória
as O Rei
Rita Durão
Rita Durão
as
Miguel Borges
Miguel Borges
as
José Airosa
José Airosa
as
Maria Do Carmo Rôlo
Maria Do Carmo Rôlo
as Branca de Neve
João César Monteiro
João César Monteiro
as

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João César Monteiro
João César Monteiro
Director
Robert Walser
Robert Walser
Story
João César Monteiro
João César Monteiro
Screenplay
Paulo Branco
Paulo Branco
Producer
Mário Barroso
Mário Barroso
Director of Photography
Joaquim Pinto
Joaquim Pinto
Sound Mixer
Nuno Leonel
Nuno Leonel
Assistant Sound Editor

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