Love and separation costumes

Love is dressing for the encounter – and, sometimes, also for the mismatch. This course proposes a delicate and thought-provoking dive into four Brazilian feature films that place love at the center of the narrative. The objective is to investigate how the costumes accompany the characters’ internal movements: their passions, hopes, silences and ruptures. How do clothes speak before speech? How does she translate, sew or tear apart her affections?

At each meeting, a film and its production context will be analyzed based on two main keys: 1. The relationship between costumes and Brazilian clothing in four distinct decades: 1920, 1960, 1980 and 1990. 2. The visual choices made by costume designers to express changing emotions: from enamored joy to elegant disillusionment, through sensual loss of control, loving mourning and the (vain?) attempt to start over again. new clothes.

Idealized, impossible, ephemeral and everyday loves will be discussed, taking as a starting point four notable works of Brazilian cinema:

Lição de amor (1975), by Eduardo Escorel, costumes by Anísio Medeiros. Elegant adaptation of the novel Amar, verb intransitivo, by Mário de Andrade, set in the city of São Paulo in the 1920s.

All the women in the world (1967), by Domingos Oliveira, costumes by Zuzu Angel. An ode to loving freedom and the discoveries of youth in the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro.

I Know That I Will Love You (1986), by Arnaldo Jabor, costumes by Glória Kalil. With Fernanda Torres and Thales Pan Chacon, a naked (almost literal) and raw portrait of a couple trying to understand why their love ended. The actress won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for best female performance.

Little loving dictionary (1996), by Sandra Werneck, costumes by Pedro Sayad. An urban romance from the end of the 20th century, with clothes that reflect the search for meaning, affection and identity.

This course is an invitation to all people who love cinema, fashion and human relationships (especially when these relationships become a little complicated). Because, after all, costumes may not cure a broken heart, but they certainly help tell a love story with more style.

The course lasts eight hours, divided into four classes, on the 8th, 10th, 15th and 17th of December, from 7pm to 9:30pm. Registration can be made free of charge from December 3rd.