Idolatrada

Idolatrada
Directed byPaulo Augusto Gomes
Based on
Starring
Edited byMauro Alice
Music byTavinho Moura
Distributed byEmbrafilme (Brazil)
Release date
  • December 5, 1983 (1983-12-05) (Brazil)
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

Idolatrada (lit. Worshipped) is a 1983 Brazilian drama film directed by Paulo Augusto Gomes with an original screenplay by him and Mario Alves Coutinho. The film stars Denise Bandeira and Carmen Silva. It is known in English as The Loved One.

Production

The film is the directorial debut of Gomes (born 1949), who also had a career as film critic.

Fiming started in Belo Horizonte in 1981.

Reception

A review in Visão found the film sincere and unpretentious but conceded that the lack of experience of the director showed, while Veja described it as "An intimist film about an intellectual in Minais Gerais who remembers his life on the day of his golden wedding anniversary".


Accolades

Year Awards Category Nominee(s) Result
1983Festival de GramadoBest FilmIdolatradaNominated
Special Award from the JuryIdolatradaWon

References

  1. ↑ Mariana Peixoto (2024-07-24). "Morre o crítico, cineasta e roteirista Paulo Augusto Gomes" [Screenwriter, director and movie critic Paulo Augusto Gomes passes away] (in Portuguese). Estado de Minas.
  2. ↑ Mariana Peixoto (2024-07-24). "Morre Paulo Augusto Gomes, o mineiro que dedicou a vida ao cinema" [Paulo Augusto Gomes passes away - he was the Minas Gerais native that dedicated his life to cinema] (in Portuguese). Estado de Minas.
  3. ↑ Paulo Augusto Gomes. "A História do Idolatrada" [The storfy of Idolatrada] (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  4. ↑ "Idolatrada". AdoroCinema. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  5. ↑ Cinemais (in Portuguese). Laboratório de Pesquisa e Tecnologia da Imagem da UENF. 2000.
  6. ↑ Coutinho, Mário Alves (2015-12-10). A explosão e o suspiro ou um corpo que cai (in Brazilian Portuguese). Editora Tipografia Musical (Bruno Silva D’Abruzzo ME). ISBN 978-85-68951-02-6.
  7. ↑ Nagib, Lúcia (2002). O cinema da retomada: depoimentos de 90 cineastas dos anos 90 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Editora 34. ISBN 978-85-7326-254-4.
  8. ↑ "Mulheres do Cinema Brasileiro - Datas". www.mulheresdocinemabrasileiro.com.br. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
  9. 1 2 "Mulheres do Cinema Brasileiro - Entrevistas Depoimentos". www.mulheresdocinemabrasileiro.com.br. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
  10. ↑ Hammer, Tad Bentley (1991). International Film Prizes: An Encyclopedia. Garland. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8240-7099-1.
  11. ↑ Caderno de crítica (in Brazilian Portuguese). EMBRAFILME. 1986. pp. 37–38.
  12. ↑ Varia história (in Brazilian Portuguese). Departamento de História, FAFICH/UFMG. 1997.
  13. ↑ Visão (in Brazilian Portuguese). 1985. p. 66.
  14. ↑ Veja (in Brazilian Portuguese). Editora Abril. 1985. p. 34.
  15. ↑ "Gramado Film Festival 1983". IMDB.