João Bénard da Costa
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 7, 1935
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film Museum, who passed away in 2009.
Love Torn in a Dream
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Fragile as the World
An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story.
The Satin Slipper
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
Past and Present
This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Doomed Love
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
City of Pirates
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Cinemaamor
Joaquim is a romantic supermarket employee. He has only one friend Gaspar, who speaks almost only for cinematic quotes. At leisure, go around town looking for the right woman. But when found, she throws herself from a balcony. Then comes a dance, as in a musical, and an obvious surprise... A movie about beauty and glory that has more love stories.
Francisca
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Blind Man's Bluff
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.
Filmography
as Self
as Tavares, o Coleccionador
as Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")
as Himself
as Himself
as Bahia
as Ferreira
as A Man
as Avô
as Le représentant du gouvernement
as Pope Clemente X
as Doctor
as Baltazar
as Blind Man
as Medico (as Duarte de Almeida)
as Baron of Alvito
as truck driver
as Salvador
as Courtisan
as The Father
as Duarte de Almeida
as Wanderer #2
as Artur (as João Pedro Bénard da Costa)
as Comandante do Navio
as Capitão do Barco
as Honório