O Corpo que Fala: A Conversa no Documentário de Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho, Documentary, Conversation, Story-telling, Body
This research is based on the analysys of the conversations mediated by photography, by moving images and by the singing on Eduardo Coutinho’s documentary, highlighting the different body engagements of the character related with the other on-scene materialities.We present the constitution of what is called cinema of conversation on Coutinho’s work, resorting to the concept of conversation as the tracing of a becoming, from Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet on A Conversation: What is it? What is it for? pointing outsome convergences between the concepts of conversation of the director and the philosopher, outlining the lines that compose the director’s style: the tendency to minimalism in what concerns to the elimination of elements in the cinematographic language considered unnecessary, centering the forces of the movie around the encounter and conversation; affirmation of the charm in the story-teller character and the minor use they make of the language; the joy of the encounter on the part of the director and the characters; and the care established in both filming and assembly, components that flee from the basic question-and-answer structure on a standard interview of the traditional documentary. When the subjects of the movie, photography or the singing body are added up to the on-scene conversation, we see that the interviewer/intervewee binarism becomes fuzzy, blurred, eventually, the idea of authorship, as the other binarisms chairing the distribution of roles that structure and reassure on the classical interview shape. We emphasized scenes of conversations on the following director’s documentaries: Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (1984), Boca do Lixo (1993), Peões (2004) e As Canções (2011); without failing to mention, nonetheless, moments in Babilônia 2000 (2000), Edifício Master (2002) e O Fim e o Princípio (2005).