MARIA OF THE SEA
October 24 . 4 pm
Fórum Municipal Luísa Todi
José Leitão de Barros . PT . 1930 . 105' . M/12
subtitles . PT/ENG
cast . Rosa Maria . Oliveira Martins . Adelina Abranches . Alves da Cunha . Perpétua dos Santos
script and editing . Leitão de Barros
cinematography. Manuel Luís Vieira . António Salazar Dinis
film photography . Ferreira da Cunha
print . digitised by Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, through the project FILMar — Digitization of Film Heritage, funded by the EEA Grants 2020-2024
music and live score
Elizabeth-Jane Baldry . Stephen Horne
MARIA DO MAR is a film that’s remarkable for the way it integrates seascapes and the lives of the fishing community of Nazaré into a drama that’s built around the mutual hatred which has grown between two families as the result of the death of one fisherman caused by another.
It’s the younger generations of each family who bring the warring families to reconciliation with their love. Visually, it’s a strikingly beautiful film with montage that brought the art to new heights in Portuguese cinema.
ELIZABETH-JANE BALDRY
& STEPHEN HORNE
STEPHEN HORNE accompanies silent films for 20 years. Based at London’s National Film Theatre, but playing at all the major UK venues such as the Barbican Centre and Tate Modern, he has recorded music for DVD releases, BBC TV screenings and museum installations of silent films. He regularly performs internationally and in recent years his accompaniments have met with acclaim at the Pordenone, Telluride and Berlin Film Festivals. He is also a specialist in dance accompaniment and plays regularly at the London dance academy.
ELIZABETH-JANE BALDRY, the multi-award-winning harpist, composer and filmmaker created film music for harp for numerous silent films, which she presented in Great Britain, Europe and American venues and in the most prestigious Film Festivals. Her orchestral score for the feature film "Sir Lanval" was awarded a media innovation award. She also makes films of British fairy tales.