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God’s Wedding
(As Bodas de Deus)

Screening on Film
Directed by João César Monteiro.
With Rita Durão, João César Monteiro, Joana Azevedo.
Portugal, 1998, 35mm, color, 150 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.

Originally conceived as an integrated second part of a six-hour version of God’s Comedy, Monteiro’s fable of obscure crimes without punishment follows the comic and sexually explicit misadventures of João de Deus, again played with Buster Keaton-like gravity by Monteiro himself, as he finds fortune, love and spiritual redemption in unexpected places. A sumptuously beautiful film, God’s Wedding uses extreme wide-angle cinematography and a rich, naturalistic soundtrack punctuated with gorgeous musical interludes to create a wonderfully complex mise-en-scene that unfolds action in depth and delicate details of the image.

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