cinema no pátio: o bobo, josé álvaro morais

1987 · portugal · 2 hours · m/12

One of the greatest films in Portuguese cinema, O Bobo is set four years after the 25 April Revolution. The story revolves around a theatre director who sells weapons to finance his play, a stage adaptation of Alexandre Herculano’s O Bobo. With extraordinary skill, José Álvaro Morais creates parallels and contrasts with other forms of artistic expression and paints a broad generational portrait.

under the sign of the double [sob o signo do duplo]

The double can be defined as ‘a self that is simultaneously another’: something which, defying the laws of physics, is not only possible in cinema, but is a theme for which cinema has harboured a particular fondness since its earliest days. Cinema no Pátio presents four proposals centred on the idea of the other-self, between the present and the absent, the reflection and the distortion, and how they all connect to an image of damnation: the double in cinema almost always reflects the accursed, the deception, the perdition.
— Eduardo Brito

Eduardo Brito works in film, writing and photography. In film, he wrote and directed the feature film A Sibila, based on the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís. He has directed several short films, such as Penúmbria, Declive and Úrsula. He has written the screenplays for several of Rodrigo Areias’s feature films, including O Pior Homem de Londres. In photography and writing, he explores the themes of truth, fiction and memory, as well as the relationship between text and image, as seen, for example, in the books East Ending and Procura Nada. Eduardo holds a Master’s degree in Artistic and Museological Studies from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. He specialised in screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Cuba. He teaches as a guest lecturer at FBAUP, where he is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts, and at FLUP.

curated by eduardo brito

supported by portuguese republic – culture, youth and sports / general direction of the arts. portuguese contemporary art network (rpac). rtcp – network of portuguese theaters and cinemas.