The debut of Salvador Sobral singing a film and Júlio Resende playing it on the piano marked the start of the new edition of Video Lucem, which took place last Saturday at the Antigo Armazém da Conserveira do Sul, in Olhão.
About 350 people, including Adriana Nogueira, the new regional director of Culture, filled the improvised room to watch Leitão de Barros and Luís Reis Santos's “O Homem dos Olhos Tortos”, an unfinished film from 1919, which has based on the serial “O Mistério da Rua Saraiva de Carvalho”, by Reinaldo Ferreira – better known as Repórter X -, published in the evening edition of the newspaper “O Século”, between 1917 and 1918.
The work was projected on 35mm film, in a restoration carried out by the Cinemateca Portuguesa.
Before the “main course”, the film “A Pesca do Tuna” was also shown, also by Leitão de Barros, from 1939, a propaganda film that showed how this art was worked between Tavira and Vila Real de Santo António.
Afterwards, Júlio Resende and Salvador Sobral took the stage to give sound and voice to the first of the unfinished films that make up the Video Lucem program for this new season.
The task of setting this film to music, which was so unfinished, ended up showing the various takes needed to record the scene, was not easy, as the musicians confessed to the Sul Informação.
“It was the first time we've done something like that and it's still kind of weird for us. The work is also strange, it has no edition», said Júlio Resende.
Still, he considered, “it was an interesting experience. We ended up improvising for most of the film and playing some songs from the Alexander Search project. We combined the two things. I hope a narrative has been found. We tried to interact with the film and give it a new lease of life».
The preparation of the show involved, according to Júlio Resende, “watching the film and thinking about a script. However, we felt that it was not easy to build something very certain, because the film itself is uncertain, it is not finished».
Salvador Sobral also "had never sung a movie", as he confessed to Sul Informação. “Cinema is my biggest passion, after music and languages, and I've never done this before. It was one of the toughest things I've done lately. There was a lot of improvisation. There were one or two songs from Alexander Search, but the rest we improvised”.
"Was difficult. The film was difficult and I was there to fill chorizos a long time, but it seems that people liked it», he joked.
From Olhão, Video Lucem, which is part of the 365 Algarve's programming, leaves for the Palácio de Estoi, on January 19, at 21 pm, three films: “Something's got to give”, by George Cukor, “ Three days without God” (Bárbara Virgínia) and “O Fado” by Maurice Mauriaud. The live musical accompaniment will be Filipe Raposo, Rita Maria and Ricardo Ribeiro.
Photos: Nuno Costa | Sul Informação
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