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Home > Film List > Conception, The (A Concepçao)
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CONCEPTION, THE (A Concepçao)
Director: José Eduardo Belmonte
Brazil, 2005. 96 minutes.
Color. In Portuguese with English Subtitles.
Alex, Lino and Liz are sons of diplomats; they live together in Brasilia inside an empty apartment with no parents. Their place is full of globalized trinket. They share affectionate caresses and seem to be unaware of the world outside. Feeling bored, they try to live each day as if it was the last one. The process is radicalized when X, a person with no name or past, arrives to the house and suggests taking more seriously the idea of living every day as it was the last one. For that to happen he creates a new movement: the Conceptualism. It's mainly based on the death to the ego, being everything in everyway, abolishing money, among other things and following the path of excess, even if for that it is necessary to use drugs, false documents and behave with complete immodesty.
For them the world will become a great theater and the conceptualist is someone who makes up characters that last only 24 hours.
Alex, Lino and Liz adalah anak-anak para diplomat. Mereka tinggal dalam sebuah apartemen kosong di Brasilia tanpa orang tua, dipenuhi pernak-pernik dari berbagai penjuru dunia. Mereka saling mencintai dalam dunia yang mereka ciptakan sendiri. Merasa bosan, mereka mencoba menghidupi satu hari seakan-akan itu adalah hari terakhir. Proses ini menjadi semakin radikal saat X, seseorang tanpa nama dan tanpa masa lalu datang dan menyodorkan ide yang lebih serius. Untuk mewujudkannya, dia menciptakan gerakan baru: Konseptualisme. Pada dasarnya ini adalah pembunuhan terhadap ego, menjadi apa saja dengan cara apapun, salah satunya dengan meniadakan uang, menjadi seliar-liarnya, memakai obat-obatan, membuat dokumen-dokumen palsu, berprilaku buruk. Dunia adalah panggung teater. Seorang konseptualis adalah seorang yang berhasil mencipta karakter yang hanya mampu bertahan selama 24 jam.
Festivals/Awards:
Best Editing and Best Music - 38o Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema - Brazil, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Music - 3º Fiesp/Sesi Prize São Paulo, Brazil
Screening Time:
Tue, 22 April, 21.00, Movie Box
Venue:
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