Jornal da Mostra
Bruna e Riccelli
Nº 377 > 29ª Mostra > 27/10/2005
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Bruna Lombardi and Carlos Alberto Riccelli debut as writer and director in “Stress, Orgasms and Salvation – S.O.S.”
For those who find weird that first film of the Paulista Carlos Alberto Riccelli as a director is a production with an English title - Stress, Orgasms and Salvation- S.O.S. -, the explanation comes through his wife, the Paulista actress Bruna Lombardi, who signs her first screenplay: “We went to the United States to study cinema. One of the advantages is that this art has no limits, it’s an universal language. This ability of talking to people in so many different languages is what gives the motion picture such greatness.Riccelli explains that the couple had many projects, but coincidentally, this was the first of them to have its production viable. Becoming a director was for him a natural move: “I’ve always preferred the set. I’m not the kind of actor who likes to wait to shoot in the dressing room. I like to follow the whole process, to see how the director deal with the problems”.
The motion picture, for the actor and director, is the art that most interests him, “for being the most complete art, in such way that all the other arts fit in it”. Bruna points out that she comes from a cinema family. Her father (who died in 2002) was the Italian cinematographer Ugo Lombardi, who came to Brazil during the 50’s, invited by the Vera Cruz Studio. “Everything in my life happens because of a film, even the fact of be born in Brazil”, says the actress.
According Riccelli the future of the cinema from the digital cameras popularization is promising: “At the same time that the production becomes more stratified, the chance of buying your own camera and makes your own movie increases. It makes possible for the cinema to become wider, more democratic, reaching all the places, and done by anyone. I think we’ll undergo the era of the great corporations that controlled the 20th century, to small groups of similar people, who will meet more, sharing their differences.
Buna also declared her emotion for participating in the Film Festival, which she follows for a long time as fan and viewer. “For those who enjoy cinema, the Film Festival is for sure the most important event in Brazil. It’s lesson of persistence and quest, of believing in a passion and being moved by it”.
Stress, Orgasms and Salvation – S.O.S. will be exhibited next Friday (28th), 11:00 pm, at Espaço Unibanco 1, and on Sunday (30th), 1:00 pm at Unibando Arteplex 1.
