Mulheres Traídas [making of] (2007)

• 52%
• 2007
• Documentary
• Miguel Marques

Maria José Silva is a unique figure in Portuguese culture: director, writer, actress and singer, writer, actress and singer, lives in Porto and has been making amateur cinema for over 20 years. "Women Betrayed" is her most recent film, a story of infidelity told in a woman's voice. This documentary closely follows the shooting, reflecting on how fiction mirrors social reality. «The term "making of" has entered the vocabulary of filming fiction films, and is normally a task assigned to less experienced directors or those just starting out in their careers. It goes without saying that, even though it is a bastard of the documentary genre, I have always wanted to make one of these meta-films: to accompany a film shoot for weeks on end, to be close to directors and actors and produce an absolutely free look at the creation of the film object; to use the material filmed and the experience acquired to present and understand the immense subtlety with which reality entices and drives the creation of a work of fiction. This making of resulted in a a reflection on amateur cinema and on Maria José Silva's search for a mediation of conflict mediation through cinema - and herein lies our complicity. Maria José Silva was born in Vila do Conde 69 years ago. In the 1960s she went to Lisbon with her husband, a republican guard, and put an advertisement in the newspaper: "Provincial girl offers to work for days". From then on, all the money her husband earned was later they bought a cheese factory in Rua de Santo Ildefonso in Porto. in Oporto. Maria José is a popular figure from the north and is known from many television programmes. She was already publishing her own records and poetry books when she started working in the cinema. Since Since 1983, she has directed 10 films, with the collaboration of her children and friends.