Seashore: Coming-of-age The film about the complexities of adolescence provided food for thought at Cine Chat yesterday.
The Centro Cultural da Justiça Federal was the location for an illuminating debate on the film Seashore, a feature-length fiction film that débuted at the Berlin festival this year. The work details a weekend in the lives of friends Martin and Tomaz: their experiences and personal discoveries. The technical team were present to give behind-the-scenes insights into the film-making process.
Sergio
Mota, professor of Social Communications at one of Rio’s main universities (PUC-Rio),
led the debate, which discussed a wide range of themes including coming-of-age
narratives, notions of gender diversity and sexual discovery and the issues
facing today’s young generation. Directors Felipe Matzembacher and Marcio
Reolon stressed the importance of the both the inter-diegetic relationships
between characters – principally between the protagonists and their families –
as well as the extra-diegetic relationships between the directors themselves
and the characters they envisioned. Marcio Reolon stated that they felt it
crucial they make the movie while they were of a similar age to their young
heroes, in order to depict a sincere and empathic portrait.
The film’s soundtrack – which evoked the sounds of the sea as symbolic of nostalgia– as well as the filming process – rehearsed and recorded in chronological order – also came under discussion.
Read a full account of the debate in Portuguese here.
Photos: Carolina la Cerda
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