UID:
kobvindex_ZLB14120262
Format:
2 DVD (ca. 78/100 Min.)
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Tonformat: DD/Stereo
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1 Beih. (15 S.)
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Bildformat: 4/3 ; PAL
Content:
A reverent, humbling, and impassioned observation of life among the landless, peasant farmers of the semi-arid Carriri region of Ceará in northeastern Brazil, Jean-Pierre Duret and Andrea Santana's poetic ethnographic documentary Romances de terre et d'eau bears the deep humanism and trenchant, sociopolitical commitment of its venerable producers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Insightfully filmed near the commencement of the town's nine day, Feast of St. Anne - the patron saint of mothers and childless women (and in a broader sense, fertility) - the film opens to the shot of potters forming and hand painting an assortment of decorative, pastoral clay figures on the dirt floor of a modest, unlit house. In a subsequent establishing sequence, a sprightly octogenarian and water diviner standing at a grazing pasture, Miguel Rodrigues de Barros (affectionately known in the village as Seu Tetel), tells the story of his birth in the context of a terrible drought that had devastated the region in the same year. In a way, the juxtaposition of artisanal clay people and the personal testimony of real-life farmer Seu Tetel, whose identity is similarly rooted in the bounty of the earth, embodies the harsh reality of everyday life among the dispossessed and profoundly marginalized Sertão farming communities - an existence that has been shaped and worn down by a profound connection with a generous, but unforgiving land that has led to a life of nourishment and deprivation, joy and hardship - a way of life, already imperiled by the unpredictability of seasonal harvest, that is further being eroded by increasingly hostile enforcement of land rights, privatization, and commercial development. (Strictly Filmschool)
Note:
Ländercode: 2
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Orig.: Frankreich/Belgien, 2002
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Brasilian. portugies. mit franz. und engl. Untertiteln, Beih. franz.
Language:
Portuguese
Keywords:
Brasilien 〈Nordost〉
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Bauer
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Armut
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DVD-Video
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Bundesstaat Ceará
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Bauer
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Armut
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Dardenne, Luc
Author information:
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre
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