Silvestre

The female figure not only is driven by transgressive curiosity, to open the box, but is able to look at the supposed horror of those aspects of the female body that are repressed under patriarchal culture. It is here that the myth, otherwise from its very beginnings truly…

Avalyn Wu

cinema as medieval tapestry. this is what christian metz meant when he said bazin's cosmogony failed to address syntagmatic and paradigmatic flows and their interaction, although this film wouldn't exist if cinema was indeed a language: it can work as a language, but it…

Diogo Serafim

Monteiro is the only other auteur whose mastery of montage rivals that of Straub/Huillet strictly in terms of its consequence and psychic impact on the viewer. There are multiple sequences wherein Monteiro uses cutting to directly convey emotion expressed from the…

Jerry

A combination of late Rossellini and acid house that thrashes the morality of the fable. Monteiro can seemingly film in any style.

Jerry

SILVESTRE (Cahiers du Cinéma Nº 460, outubro 1992.) Republicado em: Coletivo Atalante. Silvestre, um filme, um coração de fogo; arde apaixonadamente — substância e matriz — da sua própria energia; sem defesa, transtorna-se, reaparece, renasce consciente da sua…

João César Monteiro

the murder of the storybook was swift and merciless — and as it lay on the ground, ink spilling from its death-gashes, ready to become a wary horror tale for all future stories to come to take note of, it lets out one final scream. that final scream means one final…

noma

What shall we do with this sword? Wield it against the greedy and the dishonest, let it change us and grant us a new perspective of the world. The damsel warrior takes down her tormentor in three tries, charging forward and retreating like a camera that constantly pushes in…

Avalyn Wu

This is one of Monteiro's finest and most important stylistic achievements. Adapted from a 15th century Portuguese fable, with echoes of the Bluebeard folktale, this narrative of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant is mounted in front of extremely theatrical…

Keaton B

"Sister what misfortune await us?" Truly stunning and feminist fairytale filled with travelers, knights and a dragon. I didn't expect that many turns at all... The doomed sisters dynamic is really something, first there is the Bluebeard that almost imprison…

Caroline