“Onde bate o Sol” (1989), de Joaquim Pinto: claves cinematográficas y culturales

Abstract

Following the methodology of Classical Tradition, this essay offers an analysis of the film “Onde Bate o Sol” (1989), by the Portuguese filmmaker Joaquim Pinto, based on a comparative study with the film “The Go-Betzoeen” (1970), by the British director Joseph Losey. In Losey's film the mythological figure of Icarus is present in order to resolve the enigma of the argument; in Pinto, however, the figure of Hippolytus is present with the aim of solving his own enigma about a dead children. From the interpretations of J. P. Vernant, we can consider that, according to Classical Mythology, both films reflect different perceptions about the idea of mortality for human beings, in one hand, and for gods, on the other hand.