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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.Read More »
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This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. “Starting off from a fine novel by Carlos de Oliveira, Fernando Lopes doesn’t so mush reconstitute a story, but rather defines an atmosphere parallel to that which exists in the literary work. The erosion of time, the crumbling of an epoch, the decline of a stately home, the disintegration of emotions: the film version of A Bee in the Rain talks about all these things, using a language that is sparse and unpolished, fascinating and at the same time repulsive in its disturbing silence” (Lauro Antonio).Read More »