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As Bodas de Deus (literal English title: The Spousals of God) is a 1999 Portuguese comedy film directed by João César Monteiro. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.




Cast


Rita Durão - Joana de Deus
João César Monteiro - João de Deus
Joana Azevedo - Elena Gombrowicz
José Airosa - Omar Raschid
Manuela de Freitas - Sister Bernarda
Luís Miguel Cintra - God's Messenger
Ana Galvão - Leonor (as Ana Velazquez)
José Mora Ramos - Inspector Pantaleão
Fernando Mora Ramos - Psychiatrist
Fernando Heitor - Butler Vasconcelos
João Listz - Sparafucile
Jean Douchet - Bardamu
Filipa Araújo - Celestina
Sofia Marques - Nun
Teresa Negrão - Inês
Paulo Miranda - Agostinho




Production






= Development

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João César Monteiro, in 1995, planned to shoot "The Comedy of God" and "The Wedding of God" as one film, in two parts, which he titled "Theology of God". The first would take place in Lisbon, as would happen, and the second in Paris, as would never happen. The production constraints in Paris between 1996 and 1997 were such that César Monteiro abandoned these plans and considered that "Theology of God" would remain incomplete. The director went ahead with another project, Le Basin de J.W., filmed between May and June 1997. The terrible reception reserved for that film, the "disorientation" the director said he experienced during and after Le Bassin, the impossibility of resuming in Paris the shooting of "The Wedding of God", led him to reconsider the script for "The Wedding of God".
This feature film is a Luso-French production, by Madragoa Filmes, RTP and Gemini Films. It closes the trilogy focused on the character of João de Deus, the protagonist, embodied in a poor devilish human good, with repeated autobiographical references, in a sarcastic and moody style. The intended result is to draw a caricature of someone less virtuous than vicious, author and actor of unqualified comedies in a hypocritical world, with abundant literary, artistic, and philosophical references. The film is dedicated to César Monteiro's wife, Margarida Gil, a director who collaborated with her husband on his works.




References






External links


As Bodas de Deus at IMDb

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