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Born in Figueira da Foz in 1939, João César Monteiro was a Portuguese filmmaker, film critic, and writer. He grew up in an “anticlerical and anti-Salazarist” family and, at the age of 15, moved to Lisbon to continue his studies. In 1963, he received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and spent two years studying film at the London School of Film Technique in England. Back in Portugal, he made his first film, the medium-length “He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits for Dead Men’s Shoes” (1970). It was followed by “Fragments of an Alms-Film” (1972), “Trails” (1978), “Silvestre” (1981), “Hovering Over the Water” (1986), “Recollections of the Yellow House” (1989), which earned him the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, “The Last Dive” (1992), “God’s Comedy” (1995), which won the Grand Jury Prize in Venice, “A Walk with Johnny Guitar” (1996), “The Hips of J.W.” (1997), “The Spousals of God” (1999), and “Snow White” (2000). Monteiro died in Lisbon on February 3, 2003, at the age of 64. His final film, “Come and Go” (2003), received the Critics’ Award at the 27th Mostra, which also presented a retrospective of his work.