An Interview with Writer/Director/Producer Penelope Lawson
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
The Conversation Is Over
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
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The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:João Botelho
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Runtime:104 minutes
Studio:Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)
Cast
João Botelho
Director
Fernando Cabral Martins
Fernando Pessoa
André Gomes
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Juliet Berto
Helena
Jorge Silva Melo
Narrator / Fausto
Luís Pacheco
Pessoa na morte
Manoel de Oliveira
Padre
Elsa Wallencamp
Freira
António Wagner Diniz
Apresentador do Cabaret
Helena Afonso
Cantora
Nuno Vieira de Almeida
Pianisa
Rogério Vieira
José Augusto
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