Doclisboa and the Cinemateca Portuguesa are presenting, in collaboration with FICUNAM, the largest retrospective ever dedicated to Mexican director Paul Leduc (1943-2020) outside his own country, and the first on the European continent. The programme dedicated to Leduc will be entitled “A Dance to the Music of Time”.
The early screening of the retrospective is scheduled for the 5th of July at 9.45pm, on the terrace of Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, with the screening of “¿Cómo ves?”. The film is a documentary-like portrait of the lives of young people from one of Mexico City’s poorest neighbourhoods, in which there are no protagonists but rather a fresco of micro-stories, sometimes abstract, which in an almost unrecognisable way are inspired by texts from different writers, including seminal authors such as José Agustín and José Revueltas.
¿Cómo ves? (1986), by Paul Leduc
Paul Leduc is a leading figure in Mexican independent cinema from the 1970s, whose oeuvre has been discovered abroad thanks to the work of Filmoteca UNAM. Leduc portrayed the major political and socio-cultural changes in his country in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century: from the legacy of the Mexican revolution to the struggles of peasants against the oppression of local caciques, to the various revolutions in Latin America and the consequences of globalisation and the neoliberal policies that have devastated the continent.
In his cinema, Paul Leduc has always wanted to push the most conventional cinematographic languages to its limits, crossing elements of documentary, poetry, dance, music and magic. Between the 17th and 27th of October, we will discover Leduc’s unique, avant-garde and independent work, curated by Boris Nlepo, one of Doclisboa’s programmers.
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