Fernando Lopes – Belarmino (1964)

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Released in 1964 and directed by Fernando Lopes, “Belarmino” charts the life and times of ex-boxer Belarmino Fragoso. It is considered one of the first films of the Novo Cinema Português, itself part of a wave of New Cinema movements sweeping the world in the 196os, and one of the key markers of a break from the previous traditions of Portuguese cinema. Lopes’s film was shown at the festivals of Pesaro and Salso-Poretta in Italy, garnered favorable reviews throughout Europe and won the Pretttio da Casa da Imprensa back in Portugal. Alongside fellow director Paulo Rocha and their mutual producer Antonio Cunha Telles, Fernando Lopes was soon acknowledged as one of the principal figures of Portuguese cinema in the 196os. Repressive censorship had meant that much of the latest, most innovative production in the world of film did not reach Portuguese screens and, like other films of the Novo Cinema Português, Belarmino achieved little popularity with a national audience ill-prepared for formally and thematically innovative cinema. Nonetheless, amongst the cognoscenti, Belarmino was recognized as a landmark in national film production. In his dictionary of Portuguese cinema, Jorge Leitão Ramos has this to declare about Lopes’s film:

[Tracing (via an interview conducted by the journalist Baptista-Bastos) the profile of the boxer Belarmino Fragoso, what this film really describes is the city of Lisbon and the harried breath of the country. Sharp images, harsh words, to hell with the true lies of this lonely man. The soggy grey atmosphere of Lisbon in the 196os is all there, dressed up in a tic and dispatched to ‘take a hiding, the anonymous lot of the emigrant. In shrill splinters, iron bars and jazz. No dreams, no illusions, just fatigue. And a montage that wants to speak out and a reality that will not let it. No pity, no exaltation, Belarmino is just a punch to the stomach]

from Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook
By Paul Melo e Castro

Belarmino.1964.APH.DVDRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 12mn
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Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French