Diário de Um Novo Mundo (2005)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Paulo Nascimento

Writers:

Pedro Zimmermann (writer)
Luiz Antônio de Assis Brasil (novel)

Release Date:

16 September 2005 (Brazil)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In 1752, a ship arrives in Brazil, bringing doctor and writer Gaspar de Fróes. He keeps a diary about the dangerous trip...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Edson Celulari	...	Gaspar de Fróes
Daniela Escobar	...	Dona Maria
Rogério Samora	...	Lieutenant Covas
Jean Pierre Noher	...	Don Pedro Caballos
José Vitor Castiel	...	Manuel Escudeiro
Gonzalo Durán	...	Padre Moralles
Marcos Paulo	...	Captain Eleutério
José Eduardo	...	General Gomes Freire
Felipe Kannenberg	...	Coronel Osório
Marcelo Alfaro	...	Marquis Valdelírios
Marcelo Aquino	...	Aguiar
Nélson Diniz	...	Blas Gascon
Naiara Harri	...	Francisca
Ney Matogrosso	...	Gaspar's Vision
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wagner Nascimento	...	Marinheiro
Jorge Nasser	...	Capitan Castellano
Nicola Siri	...	Alessandro Spínola
Gustaf Van Perinostein	...	Soldado castellano

Runtime:

Brazil:94 min

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Brazil:14

Filming Locations:

Rio Pardo, Brazil

Company:

Accorde Filmes

A love story in the New World

In 1752 doctor GASPAR DE FROES (Edson Celulari) travels in a ship with Portuguese colonists from Azores to Rio Grande, Sta. Catarina, in Brazil, at the time a Portuguese colony. After he arrives there he meets DONA MARIA (Daniela Escobar) and her husband TENENTE COVAS (Rogério Samora). The doctor and DONA MARIA start a seducing game and end up felling in love, but then he leaves, joining on mission, imposed by GENERAL GOMES FREIRE (Jose Eduardo), ruler of those lands, to set up the borders between Portuguese and Spanish Crowns in the New World. He goes but he never forgets about MARIA...

DIARIO DE UM NOVO MUNDO is a historic romance drama set in colonial Brazil in the middle of the 18th century. It's slow paced and melancholic but is very well produced. The cast is very good, joining actors from different nationalities: Portuguese, Brazilian, among others. The costumes, the settings and the production in general are great but the soundtrack, in spite of the nice music, I think is a bit out of context! Rock music and electric guitar sounds don't have much to do with the 18th century I think… (Near the end I found a little bit logical explanation to that music's inclusion, but even so I think it doesn't fit well in the movie…).

One other problem of this movie is that its plot doesn't follow a straight direction. During plot's development I felt a bit lost about the main topic of this film: if it was the romance between GASPAR and MARIA, if it was the war between Portugal and Spain or if it was the doctor's journey in the New World; but near the end I understood the main topic is really the love story between GASPAR and MARIA.

To sum up, it's an interesting movie (even being a bit slow and melancholic) about a love story set in a period and context which I think that is not so largely portrayed in cinema, the Colonial Brazil.