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As the Flames Rose

Country: Portugal, Language: Portugeuse, 26 mins

Original Title

O Que Arde Cura
  • Director: João Rui Guerra da Mata
  • Writer: João Rui Guerra da Mata; João Pedro Rodrigues
  • Producer: João Figueiras

CGiii Comment

A conceptually innovative film of great emotional power, AS THE FLAMES ROSE draws an intriguing parallel between the burning of Lisbon and the ending of a love relationship. While the town is on fire, a man (played by the charismatic João Pedro Rodrigues) receives an unexpected phone call and flames from his past burst through his bedroom, suffocating his life.

Playing with influences from expressionism and melodrama, in a surprising mix of fiction and documentary, the film creates an impressive relationship between human body and space, through an elaborate mise-en-scene and a remarkable use of chiaroscuro lighting and projected images.

This way it succeeds, with just one character, in a single space, to create an entire inner world, the room walls, the objects, the skin becoming a landscape of powerful human emotions.


Trailer...

O QUE ARDE CURA / AS THE FLAMES ROSE - EXCERPT 1 from Blackmaria on Vimeo.

Cast & Characters

João Pedro Rodrigues