Movie: ‘The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis’ by João Botelho | New Jersey

The Arte Institute has the pleasure to present the screening of the movie ‘The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis’ by director João Botelho, on October 19th at Rutgers University-Newark School of Arts and Sciences in New Jersey, as part of Saramago´s Week in New York program.

Venue: Rutgers University-Newark School of Arts and Sciences
Address: Newark, 360 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
Date: October 19th, 2022 – 10.00 AM
Tickets: Free Entrance

Synopsis:
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers of the Portuguese language established a gigantic parallel universe creating a series of heteronyms to survive his loneliness of genius. José Saramago, Nobel laureate of literature in 1998, wrote this novel returning the heteronymous Ricardo Reis to Portugal, after 16 years of exile in Brazil.

1936 is the year of all danger, Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, the terrible Spanish civil war and Salazar’s Estado Novo in Portugal. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda are Ricardo Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. Literature as well as cinema allows ‘Life and Death is all one’. Fantastic realism is the subject-matter of this movie.

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