The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
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The Sound of the Shaking Earth
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
- Recommendations
Status
Released
Release Date
Oct 22, 1990
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
User Score
62%
Original Title
O Som da Terra a Tremer
Production Companies
RTP, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Inforfilmes, Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)
Director
Rita Azevedo Gomes
Description
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.