Release Date
11 Oct, 2000
Runtime
01:15: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
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.
Original Title
Branca de Neve
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Actors
Ana Brandão
Luís Miguel Cintra
Diogo Dória
Rita Durão
Miguel Borges
João César Monteiro
Crew
Joaquim Pinto
Paulo Branco
Mário Barroso
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