from the program) At the Cinemateca we watched the Ernesto de Sousa Programme – 2.
Dom Roberto is the film that best reflects Ernesto de Sousa’s intense relationship with cinema and expresses his strong commitment to the development of a cinematic culture that would give rise to Cinema Novo in Portugal. It represented an unprecedented experiment, having been produced under a “spectators’ cooperative” model. (…) An essential title for evoking the origins of Cinema Novo, which sparked a revolution in the way films were made in Portugal and was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
