João Canijo – Mal Viver – Bad Living #Berlinale2023

February 26, 2023

João Canijo - Mal Viver - Bad Living #Berlinale2023 fredfilmradio

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews João Canijo, director of the film Bad Living.

There’s a portoguese director João Canijo who at the 73rd Berlinale just brought two films, Mal Viver – Bad Living in the official competition and Viver Mal – Living Bad, a mirror film to the first one, in Encounters. The director talks about the starting point of the two films which are both set in a hotel run by three generations of women. In Mal Viver, which is Canijo most autobiographical and personal film, we look at a matriarcal family and their corrupted relations. In Viver Mal instead, we see things from the clients’ perspective which personalities are inspired by three drama plays by August Strindberg including The Pelican. Mal Viver just won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 73rd Berlinale.

Mal Viver – Bad Living: In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.

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