Sunday 16 March at 19:00
Non is a dense and long prepared interrogation on Portugal’s history and identity, built upon the memory and reenactment of catastrophic military defeats. The historic episodes (filmed with a mix of splendorous mise-en-scène and a material, “handcrafted” touch) are introduced and recalled by Alferes (second lieutenant) Cabrita (Luis Miguel Cintra) while is company moves in Africa, in a Colonial War mission, just before the collapse of the regime in 1974. One of the key films of the immense and invaluable work of Oliveira, this is also one of the boldest approaches to the (very “Portuguese”) issue of our collective identity. A free work of a free man, who addresses the sense of History in a dialectical way, unaffected by popular or intellectual clichés, official approaches, or elementary patriotic views.
Introduction by José Manuel Costa, former Director of the Cinemateca Portuguesa, professor and film historian
Restoration
Film copy preserved by Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema.
