It will be a cine-concert debut, but that doesn't scare Cristina Branco, a fado singer who, this Friday, May 17, from 21 pm, will set the silent film “The River” to music, in the middle of Tavira Military Barracks.
This will be the last session of “Video Lucem”, an initiative supported by "365Algarve" and that has taken cine-concerts to different parts of the region.
The screen, mounted at the Military Quarter of Tavira, will show, to whet your appetite, “Algarve”, a small tourist film by Amélia Borges Rodrigues, shot in 1934. The live follow-up will be done by Orlando Almeida, Alexis Simões and Carlos Matos.
Then follows the most awaited moment. “The River”, a film by Frank Borzage (1928), partially lost, will be shown, with Cristina Branco ensuring the musical part of the cine-concert.
“Preparing everything has been very rewarding. We're still going to have a dress rehearsal before the concert, because it's something really special. Making music for a movie is not that self-evident. We have to respect the minutes, be careful with the scenes and make sure that people have the same timeline and emotional”, said Cristina Branco, to Sul Informação.
Basically, the idea is that “music serves the images in the best way possible”.
«It is a work that is being done from scratch. People won't hear a normal concert, songs will appear and reappear depending on what's happening in the scene. There will be no interruptions, no applause and that is a challenge», he considered in an interview with our newspaper.
To set “The River” to music, a film that was lost and was discovered and restored, Cristina Branco saw the film “a hundred times”.
"It's a very artistic film, about the development of a love affair, but it's stupidly innocent," he said, between laughs.
Although not complete with all the images, the film, which features interpretations by Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan, will be shown with information about the missing scenes.
Accompanying Cristina Branco will be «the usual ones»: Bernardo Couto, on Portuguese guitar, Bernardo Moreira, on double bass, and Luís Figueiredo, on piano.
«It's going to be a challenge, but I don't like things to be easy. I love it when there's something that kicks in and makes us think," he concluded, in his statements to the Sul Informação.
Tickets for this cine-concert cost 7,5 euros and can be purchased here
With this show, the 3rd edition of “Video Lucem”, an initiative promoted by the Cineclube de Faro and that took cine-concerts to alternative spaces, such as the Former Warehouse of Conserveiras do Sul, in Olhão, and the Palace of Estoi.
Comments