A paisagem nordestina no filme 'O Céu de Suely': uma análise de espacialidades no cinema contemporâneo

摘要

The following research intends to propose an analysis of Northeastern landscape built in the movie “Suely in the Sky”, directed by Karin Ainouz in 2006. Considering that a landscape is built by the human eye directing of a certain spatial region and that that look organizes and selects subjective previews and the imaginary of each viewer, it was explored a landscape representation in the movie via a film analysis penned by Jacques Aumont (in 2004), expanded by a plethora of methodological lines which adds landscapes concepts linked to several fields of humanities such as Arts, Geography, History and Literature. Firstly, the construction of the northeastern landscape was examed in its correlation to other movies from Contemporary Cinema and previous periods of National Cinema. Secondly, different aspects of the referred movie were investigated, since it was chose as the research empirical object, such as its production, screenplay, crew, budget and locations; it was also examined how the director’s style originated from those spatialities, elaborating a research through his career and biography – that enabled a full understanding of his preliminary references. With this theoretical input, the movie’s specific analysis was driven by three selected themes: the sky, the sertão and the woman. These themes boosted the discussions about landscape, deepened by its symbolism and spatial markers, thus, examined its functions and peculiarities which are elaborated towards landscape in this piece of work. An analysis supported beyond mere spatial description, leading to strong evidence for the narrative’s appeal, communicating the character’s personal states or even functioning as an antagonist in certain moments. In “Suely in the Sky”, the landscape itself constitutes an example for the new tendencies of Northeastern Cinema, linked to its transformation, diversity e actualization characteristics that occurs in such spacialities, also enabling the embodiment of urban, global and transculturals elements to those spatial constructs.