Film cycle / Unforgettable films

The aim of the activity is to encourage reflection and debate on the plurality of readings, meanings and truths that cinema brings to the general public. Each session will be attended by an invited personality from the most diverse areas of Portuguese life and culture, who will choose and comment on a film that they consider to have a special perspective, either because of the richness of its synthesis of the journeys of human existence, or because of its inherent aesthetic quality, or because of the relationship between Literature and Cinema.

Synopsis: It was one of the most paradigmatic films of the 1980s, creating a huge consensus around it. A literature teacher fights against the conformism of the school institution and for the interest of his students. It's Robin Williams, in one of his first roles to go against his trademark image as a voracious comedian (who would later make a name for himself in ‘Awakenings’ or ‘Good Will Hunting’). If the film by Peter Weir (the director of ‘The Witness’) doesn't always back down in the face of demagogy (the dramatic exploration of a suicide is clearly shameless) or some petty-bourgeois poetic effects, it is worth noting the unquestionable safety of the direction of the actors, particularly with the group of teenagers. ‘Dead Poets Club’ won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Tom Schulman) and received three more nominations in the categories of Best Leading Actor (Robin Williams), Best Director (Peter Weir) and Best Film (Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas). Peter Weir won the César for best foreign film in 1991.

Programme:

9.00pm - Conversation with the guest

Guest speaker: José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes

(Chair Professor and General Commissioner for the Commemorations of the 5th Centenary of the birth of Luís de Camões)

Moderator: Sérgio Guimarães de Sousa

(Scientific Coordinator of Casa de Camilo - Museum . Studies Centre)

9.30pm - Screening of the film: The Dead Poets' Club, directed by Peter Weir

Bookings can be made by telephone (252 309 750) or email (geral@camilocastelobranco.org), and the room has a capacity of 140 seats.

Tickets must be collected by 8.45pm on February 14th.