Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro
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Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro (Green outside, red inside) is a 1979 Portuguese
feature film
directed and produced by Ricardo Costa
.
, who is mainly devoted to documentary film
and docufiction
. Although conceived as a linear narrative, it subverts this classification since it finishes at the story departure point, a burial scene. Together with this stratagem, unreal and subjective situations interfere in order to generate a metaphor
of the social and political country’s situation, affected by the recent Carnation Revolution
. Facing the neorealistic
tendency of the Portuguese films of its time, it caricaturizes politics and social agents in a surrealistic mood. It was highly controversial.
after the Carnation Revolution
to realise the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communists". He fails. He even fails his death, from which he mysteriously escapes. To be continued ?"
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
directed and produced by Ricardo Costa
Ricardo Costa (filmmaker)
Ricardo Costa is a Portuguese film director and producer.Most of his filmography consists of documentary films, many of them being contaminated by fiction...
.
History
Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro, in the panorama of the Portuguese cinema of the late nineties, was an exception as far as, contrary to the national production of this time, was produced with no state funds. It is the first fictional film directed by Ricardo CostaRicardo Costa
Ricardo Costa may refer to:*Ricardo Costa , Portuguese*Ricardo Costa , Portuguese*Ricardo Costa *Ricardo Valter da Costa, Brazilian footballer*Ricardo Mion Varella Costa, Brazilian footballer...
, who is mainly devoted to documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
and docufiction
Docufiction
Docufiction is a neologism which refers to the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction. More precisely, it is a documentary contaminated with fictional elements, in real time, filmed when the events take place, and in which someone - the character - plays his own role in real life...
. Although conceived as a linear narrative, it subverts this classification since it finishes at the story departure point, a burial scene. Together with this stratagem, unreal and subjective situations interfere in order to generate a metaphor
Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...
of the social and political country’s situation, affected by the recent Carnation Revolution
Carnation Revolution
The Carnation Revolution , also referred to as the 25 de Abril , was a military coup started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, coupled with an unanticipated and extensive campaign of civil resistance...
. Facing the neorealistic
Neorealism (art)
In art, neorealism was established by the ex-Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life...
tendency of the Portuguese films of its time, it caricaturizes politics and social agents in a surrealistic mood. It was highly controversial.
Synopsis
"A middle-aged businessman, a neoliberal, returns to PortugalPortugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
after the Carnation Revolution
Carnation Revolution
The Carnation Revolution , also referred to as the 25 de Abril , was a military coup started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, coupled with an unanticipated and extensive campaign of civil resistance...
to realise the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communists". He fails. He even fails his death, from which he mysteriously escapes. To be continued ?"
Cast
- Rogério Paulo
- Adelaide João
- Armando Venâncio
- Maria Teresa Melro
- Ana Luísa Nascimento
- Luís Alberto
- António Machado
- Pedro Valentim
- Mário Vasco
- António Germano Anjos
- António Anjos
- Helena Isabel
- and others
Credits
- Writers – Ricardo CostaRicardo CostaRicardo Costa may refer to:*Ricardo Costa , Portuguese*Ricardo Costa , Portuguese*Ricardo Costa *Ricardo Valter da Costa, Brazilian footballer*Ricardo Mion Varella Costa, Brazilian footballer...
, Ilídio Ribeiro e Maurício Cunha - Production – Diafilme (1978 - 1979)
- Producers – Ilídio Ribeiro and Ricardo Costa
- Director – Ricardo Costa
- Music and songs – António Macedo
- Cinematography – Vítor Estêvão
- Sound engineer – Vítor Duarte
- Format – 35 mm colour
- Language – Portuguese and English
- Locations - Vale de Lobos (interiors: house of Alexandre HerculanoAlexandre HerculanoAlexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo , was a Portuguese novelist and historian.-Early life:...
) - Genre – comedyComedyComedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
(comic drama) - Production year – 1978
- Studios – Tobis PortuguesaTobis PortuguesaTobis Portuguesa was created on June 3rd 1932, in order to support and foster the development of Portuguese cinema, goal that kept during its 75 years of activity.-History:Tobis originally focused its activity on film production and lab processing...
and Nacional Filmes - Distribution – Doperfilme
- Premiere – Estúdio 144, LisbonLisbonLisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, 16 October 1980
Festivals
- 9th International Film Festival of Figueira da FozFigueira da FozFigueira da Foz , also known as Figueira for short, is a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. It is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, 40 km west of Coimbra, and sheltered by hills ....
(1980) – PortugalPortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... - International Film Festival of SantarémSantarém, PortugalSantarém is a city in the Santarém Municipality in Portugal. The city itself has a population of 28,760 and the entire municipality has 64,124 inhabitants.It is the capital of Santarém District....
(1980) – Portugal - ThessalonikiThessalonikiThessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
International Film Festival (1981) – GreeceGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... - Mediterranean Film Festival of LecceLecceLecce is a historic city of 95,200 inhabitants in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Lecce, the second province in the region by population, as well as one of the most important cities of Puglia...
(1982) – ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
Bibliographic references
- O Cais do Olhar by José de Matos-CruzJosé de Matos-CruzJosé de Matos-Cruz is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. From 1980 to 2010, he works at the Cinemateca Portuguesa , in Lisbon...
, Portuguese Cinematheque, 1999 - Ricardo Costa and the flowing pictures, article by José de Matos-Cruz
External links
- Green outside, red inside – producer’s web page
- Green outside, red inside at IMDb
- Fiture films by Ricardo Costa – english, french and portuguese
- Verde por Fora, Vermelho por Dentro at The Complete Index To World Film since 1895
- Verde por Fora, Vermelho por Dentro – IMDb