Romances de terre et d'eau
Synopsis
“Romances de Terre et d’Eau” is a film conceived for a choir of 14 adults and 6 children. All the characters tell a part of their own lives and recognize themselves in each other’s tales. The characters in the film are lucid. They don’t complain, moan or reproach anyone. By voice, music, poetry, dance and clay creations, they speak of the fragility of moments, couples who love each other, drought, land owners, celebrations, dreams, culture, animals, their children’s future, the cost of things, money and the earth. For a day laborer, or a farmer (he who owns nothing and he who owns little) working a tiny plot of land, the earth is like a shirt that has been patched, sewn up, mended and faded by the rain and the burning sun over and over. When it sticks to their feet, they say it is like a lover, that the earth is like their real skin.
This documentary is about farmers in northeastern Brazil who, with great dignity and tremendous humor, struggle for their economic survival, and to preserve the imaginative and regenerative power of their culture. For these farmers, descended from the native Indians, the “roca,” the place where plants, vegetables and rice are grown, thereby assuring a family’s future, could be paradise on earth if this land belonged to them. A place from which all their myths have spring and will spring, and which they struggle to maintain by poetry, music, clay creations and dance, so as to transmit this “way of life” to their children.
Credits
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Agat Films - Ex nihilo
- Foreign production companies : RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française, Dérives
- Film exports/foreign sales : Documentaire sur grand écran
- French distribution : Swift
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Patrick Sobelman
- Screenwriters : Jean-Pierre Duret, Andréa Santana
- Director of Photography : Jean-Pierre Duret
- Editor : Monique Dartonne
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Duret
- Press Attaché (film) : Jean-Charles Canu
- Sound Mixer : Francis Wargnier
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2002
- French release : 20/11/2002
- Runtime : 1 h 18 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 103.215
- Visa issue date : 07/10/2002
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Dolby SR
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Performed by Maria do Socorro Candido, Engenho Pelo Sinal sugar cane field workers, Reisado de Caretas de Potengi-Ce, the musicians of Banda Cabaçal Sao Joao Batista: Pedro Olimpo Porciano – Pifaro Cicero Pinto Barbosa – Zabumba – Luciano Campos Ribeiro - Tarol.
Music composed by: Jatoba, Forro de Primeira, El Grupo Musical Banda Cabaçal Sao Joao Batista and El Grupo Folclorico Reisado de Caretas de Potengi-Cearà.
