Snow White (2000)
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.
Director:
João César Monteiro
Writer:
João César Monteiro
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Maria do Carmo Rôlo as Branca de Neve |
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Ana Brandão as A Rainha |
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Reginaldo da Cruz as O Príncipe Estrangeiro |
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Luís Miguel Cintra as O Caçador |
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Diogo Dória as O Rei |
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José Airosa as |
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Miguel Borges as |
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Rita Durão as |
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João César Monteiro as (uncredited) |
| Directing | João César Monteiro | Director |
| Writing | João César Monteiro | Screenplay |
| Sound | Joaquim Pinto | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Paulo Branco | Producer |
| Camera | Mário Barroso | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Robert Walser | Theatre Play |
| Editing | Fátima Ribeiro | Editor |
| Production | Alexandre Oliveira | Production Manager |
| Directing | Luís Fonseca | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ana Isabel Reves dos Santos | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Nuno Leonel | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Joaquim Pinto | Sound |
| Camera | Muriel Mayret | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Heinz Holliger | Music |
| Sound | Salvatore Sciarrino | Music |
| Directing | Fátima Ribeiro | Script Supervisor |
| Production | Patrícia Almeida | Production Assistant |
| Production | Marta Cardoso | Production Assistant |
| Production | Fernanda Costa | Production Accountant |
