Chinese Viola
1975 · 8 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 46 VOTES · DIR. Júlio Bressane
Overview
The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Otelo, where, in a mixture of decorated and improvised text, we discover a little manifesto to the Brazilian experimental cinema. Also called "Belair's last film," Chinese Viola reveals the first partnership between photographer Walter Carvalho and Bressane.
Dialogue Timeline — 84 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:28 What's important in art is expression.
00:00:57 To give and to receive pleasure.
00:01:23 could be made at a pace of 5 every year and not one every 50 years.
00:02:00 Here is the seventh heaven, but we're going higher.
00:02:19 Is that so?
00:02:42 I, "Julinho" Bressane
00:02:55 How's your last movie, "Agony"?
00:03:09 The film, it is a film
00:03:27 The film, it is a film
00:03:43 meet and throw their last cards
00:03:57 only having a beginning and a middle.
00:04:13 So, art is a deformation.
00:04:37 I'm for an erotic cinema.
00:05:04 I think that today the Dulcinea is worth less
00:05:22 a puff of fresh air on the anaesthetized
00:05:53 They were censored.
00:06:06 All of this fresh air was brought over by Belair.
00:06:40 Experimental cinema also wants to occupy space.
00:07:01 The transgression, the crack that was Belair
00:07:17 Of course, but Belair is the wind that blows
00:07:35 Today, of course, because in the future they surely will.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed84
Dialogue density10.5 lines / min
First line00:00:28
Final line00:07:35
Production Record
DirectorJúlio Bressane
LanguagePortuguese
IMDb votes46