merveilleusement du bassin au Pôle nord. Serge Daney"
(Soñé que John Wayne meneaba maravillosamente su cadera en el Polo Norte. Serge Daney)
Luego de una presentación del misterio del Coram Populo, que antecede al Infierno de Strindberg, el director de la obra (João de Deus) se encuentra con alguien muy parecido al actor que interpreta el rol de Dios (Max Monteiro). El intruso dice llamarse Henrique y se presenta a sí mismo como un lobo de mar ya retirado, de paso por allí antes de iniciar el viaje que hará realidad un viejo sueño: ver al héroe de su infancia, John Wayne, menear la pelvis en el Polo Norte.
A philosophical comedy with serious religious overtones about God, Lucifer and John Wayne, this new epic from Portuguese director Joao Cesar Monteiro is as wildly original as his previous movies. Pic could provide the launching pad for a retrospective of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of a filmmaker whose unique sensibility has been acknowledged in Europe but is almost totally unfamiliar in the U.S. Defying any recognizable trends in the international cinema today, Monteiro's eccentric universe unfolds like a cross between a long dream and an intellectual dissertation. "The Pelvis of J.W." is probably more demanding and less intriguing than either "Recollections of the Yellow House" (1989) or "God's Comedy" (1995), movies that won prizes in Venice and at other festivals

Dirigido por
João César Monteiro
Guión
João César Monteiro
Texts by August Strindberg,
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Teixeira de Pascoaes,
André Breton
Reparto
Hugues Quester .... Jean de Dieu, Lucifer
Pierre Clémenti .... Paul, Henrique
Joana Azevedo .... Catarina, Ariane
Jean Watan .... Henrique, João de Deus
João César Monteiro .... Dieu, Max Monteiro (as João, o Obsucuro)
Manuela de Freitas .... Puta
Fotografía de
Mário Barroso
Montaje de
Carla Bogalheiro




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