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''Mists'' (''Brumas'') is a 2003 Portuguese independent feature-length film by Ricardo Costa, a docufiction. Nonlinear narrative, conceived as an auto-biography, it is a voyage to childhood. Shot with no state funds (uncommon situation in Portuguese film production), self financed, it is an art film. Formal simplicity〔(''Mists'': Memory and Meaning in Peniche, Portugal ) – review by Michelle Orange, Village Voice, Mar 23 2011〕 – associated with a non conventional, sober and fluid narrative〔(Ricardo Costa and The Flowing Pictures ) – article by José de Matos-Cruz〕〔(Mists ) – review by Eric Monder at Film Journal, March 23, 2011〕〔(Mists ) – review by Diego Costa at SLANT, March 23, 2011〕 of Time and human condition – is common to most of Ricardo Costa’s films. For him, narrative involves necessarily mise-en-scène and that’s why documentary (real life) tends to turn into fiction. This tendency is fully assumed with ''Mists'', the third Costa’s docufiction, after ''Changing Tides'' (1976) and ''Bread and Wine'' (1981). ''Mists'' is the first film from a new sequel docufiction autobiographic trilogy, ''Faraways''.〔(Faraways ) at the producer´s page〕 ''Drifts'' ((Derivas )), upcoming in 2014, is the second and ''Cliffs'' ((Arribas )) the third one. The filmmaker stars as the protagonist in those films. ''Mists'' is set in Peniche, the protagonist's place of birth, ''Drifts'' is set in Lisbon, where he lives and works as photographer, and ''Cliffs'' again in Peniche, where he returns to face disquieting situations and people.〔(Cliffs ) at Faraways trilogy, producer’s page〕 Mists premiered at the 60th Venice Film Festival (New Territories – 2003), was released in Portugal on 16 November 2006 and opened in New York at the Quad Cinema on March 23, 2011, event followed by other screenings outside the city.〔(Film screening and Q&A with director ) at Brown University, April 6, 2011〕〔(Screenig announced at Cable Car cinema ) – News, ''Theater Profile: Cozy Flicks at Cable Car Cinema'' at (New England Film ), Thu, 06/30/2011 - 19:00〕 ==Plot== Back to his birthplace (Peniche, a Portuguese fishermen town) more than fifty years after he saw Maria José, who used to be a maid at his parents’ house, when he was a child, the “hero” (the film director) meets her again in the summer of 2011. She is now a mother, grandmother and a great grandmother, with the sea embedded in her soul. Reflecting what the hero’s eyes observe, the camera follows those steps, moves backwards, and then it lurches forward, suggesting a disquieting outcome of situations of these days, like those of the September 11. «The boys who live around her tell the same story in a different way. To make that possible, all it takes is a flick-knife, a handsaw, a broom stick, bamboo canes, floaters from the sardine nets, a few magic tricks». 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mists」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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