Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.
João César Monteiro
Director
Maria do Carmo Rôlo
Branca de Neve
Ana Brandão
A Rainha
Reginaldo da Cruz
O Príncipe Estrangeiro
Luís Miguel Cintra
O Caçador
Diogo Dória
O Rei
Rita Durão
Miguel Borges
José Airosa
João César Monteiro
Não
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