Ana (1982)

I grew up on a farm/ranch in rural Texas. This was filmed 4,962 miles away on a farm/ranch in rural Portugal. Every shot is a remake of the textures of my childhood.

Jerry

en la parte final del film, la abuela de la familia recorre todos los espacios naturales alrededor de la casa familiar. Todos esos paisajes inmensos por los que ha transitado durante toda su vida, convirtiéndose casi en una parte más del paisaje. La vemos cruzar el encuadre…

migblah

In awe of Cordeiro and Reis’ ability to reconcile the personal, historical, spatial, ethnographical, and ontological histories of both humanity and landscapes simultaneously while also capturing some of the most awe-inspiring images ever put to film. Through merely…

Jerry

Ana. (Spoilers ahead.) For some reason I got off to a slow start with it, maybe because it was a little hard for me to understand the family relationships. (I still don’t know why the daughter was missing in the beginning, and why she was caught in bad weather.) The second…

sallitt

ANA, António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, 1982, por João Bénard da Costa. Miranda: a túnica inconsútil Confesso que estou bastante longe de partilhar do sentimento algo generalizado entre a crítica portuguesa de que estamos a viver, em 1982, um ano áureo da história do…

Foco - Revista de Cinema

Cordeiro-Reis assert their own approach to the cinematic presence of children. Unlike Straub-Huillet, who rarely feature children in their films at all, they believe that children are going to be a part of the future in some capacity. And unlike in Ford’s How Green Was My…

Avalyn Wu

watching this feels like slipping into someone else’s dream. not the kind with a clear story or meaning, but the ones where you wake up and feel like something just brushed against your soul, soft and strange. it’s slow in a way that forces you to just sit with it—no rush,…

mari ⁷⁷⁷ㅤ

spaces inhabited by birth and death, memories and wind, life is always moving

Diogo Serafim

I'm not sure if my urge is to say this redefined to me what i think of genius, claritity, vision, beauty, etc... when it comes to cinema (and thus life) or that it's grandness, or what I'm perceiving as a defining vastness I can't approach in speech, is born of something…

Nomi Billie "Jo" Gertrud Kammerer