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The Sand Rose (Rosa de Areia) (Portugal, 1989);
Jaime (Portugal, 1974)

The Sand Rose (1989)
July 9, 2012 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Directed by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual and literary work. The film’s collage structure gathers texts from multiple sources—including Kafka and Montaigne—and crafts a world of theatrical artifice far from the documentary inspired naturalism of Ana and Trás-os-Montes. Reis and Cordeiro’s least known film has lingered in obscurity and never recovered from the unfairly negative reviews that resulted in its severely limited release. Reis died less than two years later, just as he and Cordeiro were about to begin an ambitious adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s "Pedro Parámo."

Producer: Acácio de Almeida, José Mazeda. Cinematographer: Acácio de Almeida. Cast: Ana Umbelina, Balbina Ferro, Cristina DeJesus.

35mm, color, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 95 min.

Preceded by:

Jaime (Portugal, 1974)

Jaime (1974)

Directed by António Reis

While working at Lisbon’s famed Miguel Bombarda sanatorium, psychologist Margarida Cordeiro discovered a series of arresting drawings by a recently deceased former patient and paranoid schizophrenic named Jaime Fernandes. Keeping a respectful yet never tentative distance from the asylum world as a realm of unfathomable mystery, Reis and Cordeiro linger over Fernandes’ drawings, assembling a profoundly moving portrait of a gifted artist and powerful emblem of Portugal’s virtual imprisonment during the repressive Salazar regime.

Cinematographer: Acácio de Almeida. Editor: António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro.

35mm, color, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 35 min.

Part of: 
The Films and Legacy of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro