Interview with Bruna Lombardi – star and writer of Sign of the City

This interview was conducted with Ms. Lombardi on Friday, July 18; a day before the international premiere of her new film Sign of the City (2007) - written by her and directed by Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bruna Lombardi’s husband. The film is playing twice in New York City as part of this year’s Premiere Brazil series at MOMA. It’ll screen tomorow, July 19 (Saturday) at 6pm, and also on July 24 (Thursday) at the same time.

I’ll post some comments about it later on, but I hope everyone can attend this screening; it’s goten very good reviews in Brazil. I also interviewed Mr. Carlos Alberto Riccelli, but I need another day to edit another video. I’ll certainly have it posted before the July 24 screening.

Here’s the film’s trailer, also with English subtitles. Thanks,

RB

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nptGRp7Y0G4&feature

O Signo da Cidade (Sign of the City)

Direção: Carlos Alberto Riccelli. Roterito: Bruna Lombardi.

Com Bruna Lombardi, Juca de Oliveira, Malvino Salvador.

Saturday, July 19, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Thursday, July 24, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2

Enquanto astros e estrelas se movem pelo céu de São Paulo,  atirando sua mágica ao acaso, homens e mulheres perguntam o que será de seus sonhos e desejos. Gil está casado e só. Lydia flerta com o perigo. Josialdo nasceu para ser mulher. Mônica só quer se dar bem. No programa noturno de rádio em que atende ouvintes anônimos, a astróloga Teca se vê entre os anseios dos outros e seus próprios problemas. Aos poucos, o destino enreda a todos numa única teia. Na luta para romper o isolamento e achar o rumo da redenção, eles vão descobrir o poder transformador da solidariedade.

Gil is married but alone, Lydia flirts with danger, Josialdo was born to be a woman, and Mônica only wants to be successful; on her late-night call-in radio program, astrologer Teca ties these disparate lives to her own. Actor-turned-filmmaker Riccelli’s second feature, in which richly evocative steadi-cam shots linger over both the Altmanesque ensemble cast and the city spaces they inhabit, is a valentine to São Paulo and its lonely denizens.