Pelos polémicos caminhos de Trás-os-Montes

: um filme de António Reis e Margarida Martins Cordeiro

Abstract

Trás-os-Montes, the first feature film directed by António Reis and Margarida Martins Cordeiro, is a Portuguese cinema masterpiece. With a controversial premiere, the film was contested both in form and in content by certain groups of the Portuguese population who did not understand the purpose of this work. A fairer reading of this film requires framing in its context as well as in the lineage of cinema in general and in particular of the Portuguese cinema. Trás-os-Montes takes advantage of the ethnographic knowledge of a region, recreating its history and generating a poetic work "fictionally documented". It illustrates the history, knowledge and customs of one of the most unknown regions of Portugal. It mixes the two types of cinema, documentary and fiction film, in a work whose classification nowadays do not represent fully the true typology of the film

Date of Award	25 Jul 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Henrique Manuel Pereira (Supervisor)