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T�NICA DOMINANTE
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Brazil
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 80 min.
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TONIC DOMINANT / TONIQUE DOMINANTE
Tonic in traditional Western music is the root note of a key, and dominant is the fifth note of a scale. The tension between these two has often been exploited by composers in the sonata form. The film TONIC DOMINANT is basically a metaphor for music creation. The film chronicles three days in the life of a young musician and the three days correspond to the three movements of a classical sonata, each one containing its inner structure of dramatic development and the sum of the three leading to a final conclusion. On the first day the protagonist endures loneliness and fragility. On the second day what was to be a pleasant encounter becomes a nightmare. On the third day the young protagonist finally finds peace through music. Being a film about music, there is almost no dialogue and the story is mainly narrated through the integration of image and music.
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Script: Lina Chamie.
Phot.: K�tia Coelho.
Ed.: Paulo Sacramento.
Cast: Fernando Alves Pinto, Vera Zimmermann, Carlos Greg�rio, Vera Holtz.
Sales: Zita Carvalhosa, Patrick Leblanc, Cinematografica Superfilmes, rua Simao �lvares N� 784, casa 2, 05417-020 S�o Paulo (Br�sil), t�l.: (55-11) 211 55 22, fax: (55-11) 815 94 74, e-mail: [email protected].
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Lina Chamie
Brazilian-born Lina Chamie graduated from New York University in music and philosophy and received her masters from the Manhattan School of Music. She lived in New York for fourteen years while pursuing her musical studies and she worked in NYU's film department for more than ten years. Back in Brazil since 1994, she has directed many videos and the prize-winning short I Know That You Know (1995). TONIC DOMINANT is her first feature. |
