{"id":15088,"date":"2022-08-01T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15088"},"modified":"2022-07-31T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T15:37:55","slug":"the-tsugua-diaries-2021-miguel-gomes-maureen-fazendeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15088","title":{"rendered":"The Tsugua Diaries (2021, Miguel Gomes &#038; Maureen Fazendeiro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel&#8217;s covid-era meta-movie, the days edited in reverse order, the title a reversal of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8761\">an earlier feature<\/a>.  The movie starts as a light threesome drama, then begins to be about the complications around its own making.  For all its formal games, it has a time-killing feeling of &#8220;no other movies being made during lockdown, so we made one&#8221; &#8211; there&#8217;s time-lapse and slow-mo and Gomes all but admitting he doesn&#8217;t know what happens in the film.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/tsugua1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Robert Koehler <a href=\"https:\/\/cinema-scope.com\/cinema-scope-online\/tiff-2021-the-tsugua-diaries-maureen-fazendeiro-and-miguel-gomes-portugal\/\">in Cinema Scope<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Within the context of a playfully narrative feature, <em>The Tsugua Diaries<\/em> comes close to capturing what moviemaking actually feels like\u2014at least moviemaking as practiced in the free-and-easy manner of Fazendeiro and Gomes. When the actors convey to the filmmakers their worries that the scenes aren&#8217;t working, Gomes&#8217; response highlights a fact of life that auteurist critics in particular ignore at their peril: he informs the cast that he, Fazendeiro, and Ricardo are \u201cfinding that, overall, it&#8217;s been a good performance.\u201d Gomes here demonstrates that he knows that actors drive the action, not directors\u2014a notion that he takes all the way on Day 7, when he must accompany Fazendeiro to a prenatal exam, and tells his actors to direct themselves. How, they ask? \u201cWork it out,\u201d says Gomes\u2014which could be the slogan for every film set.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/tsugua2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, there are two parrots, and baby peacocks:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/tsugua3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel&#8217;s covid-era meta-movie, the days edited in reverse order, the title a reversal of an earlier feature. The movie starts as a light threesome drama, then begins to be about the complications around its own making. For all its formal games, it has a time-killing feeling of &#8220;no other movies being made during lockdown, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,239,91,265,1670,1514,370,240],"class_list":["post-15088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-birds","tag-filmmaking","tag-meta","tag-miguel-gomes","tag-pandemic","tag-portugal","tag-reverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15131,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions\/15131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}