Ainda me lembro de quando eu era uma garotinha. Todo mundo sonha com o futuro, e eu, naquela epoca, sempre dizia que iria me casar em um vestido vermelho, morar no Rio de Janeiro e ter uma familia feliz. Filhos? Claro, mas adotados, porque parir sempre esteve for a de cogitacao. Crescendo num pais onde todos em sua volta nascem por uma cirurgia cesariana cria tensoes e medos. Ja esta mais que na hora de retornar ao basico instinto: gravidez e nascimento sao processos naturais e devemos nos acostumar a essa ideia.
O primeiro passo e se informar sobre o assunto e o Ministerio da Saude agora participa ativamente dessa questao com a Campanha Incentivo ao Parto Normal. A cesariana já representa 43% dos partos realizados no Brasil no setor público e no privado. Nos planos de saúde, esse percentual é ainda maior, chegando a 80%. Já no Sistema Único de Saúde, as cesáreas somam 26% do total de partos. O parto normal é o mais seguro tanto para a mãe quanto para o bebê. De acordo com a recomendação da Organização Mundial da Saúde, as cirurgias deveriam corresponder a, no máximo, 15% dos partos. E nosso direito e dever como mulheres de assegurar que a experiencia de vida de nossos filhos seja completa em todas a circunstancias, incluindo o parto.
30.5.08
Brazil na reta do parto normal
25.5.08
Linha de Passe Wins Best Actress at Cannes
Sao Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200 kilometers of traffic, 300,000 messengers on motorcycles.
Walter Salle and Daniela Thomas have teamed once again to bring the socially conscious but not overtly politicalLinha de Passe to the screen. Sandra Corveloni, who plays their working-class mother in São Paulo won the best-actress award this weekend at Cannes.
At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four brothers try to reinvent themselves in different ways. With the backdrop of Brazil in a state of emergency, every single one is looking for a way out.
Denis (João Baldasserini), the oldest, is one of the mass of motorcycles couriers daily transversing the swarming streets of Brazil; Dario (Vínicius de Oliveria), a talented soccer player hoping his skill at the game will be a path to a better life; Dinho (José Geraldo Rodrigues), tries his escape by joining an evangelical church; and youngest brother Reginaldo (Kaique de Jesus Santos), spends his days riding buses around the city, searching for his absent father.
de Oliveria, who previously starred in Salle's 1998 Central Station is the only professional actor among the four bothers, trained for four years in junior soccer league to play this role. However, Salles and Thomas achieve mastery in obtaining performances from all their young actors regardless of their acting experience.
Salles and Daniela Thomas have reunited to update their portrait Foreign Land made 12 years ago about urban Brazil, which they left in the economic throes of President Fernando Collor.
A Linha de passe is one of the most difficult of the futbol field-of-play rules (FIFA) that states an offensive player can’t be ahead of the ball and involved in the play unless there is a defender between him and the goalkeeper. Basically translated, the rule means a player is off-side, play is stopped and the equivalent in ice hockey would be a blue line offside or in basketball a zone violation. In other words, you can’t hang out at the other team’s goal waiting for the ball as your team comes down the pitch.
However, according to the filmmakers, Linha de Passe is also a children's game not unlike hackie-sack where a group of kids stand in a circle kicking a ball in the air, not to let the others down by letting the ball fall to the ground. Certainly, in Brazil both sides of this expression enrich the depth of the metaphor.
Salle and Thomas use the rule as a metaphor for the four Paolinistas brothers and their attempts to get ahead in modern Brazil.
13.5.08
Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008)
Two artists that had a tremendous influence over my life as a painter in my 20s were Willem de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg. Last night Rauschenberg died at age 82 in Florida. In one very memorable act, the course of art history collided, when Rauschenberg went to de Kooning's Greenwich Village studio with a bottle of Jack Daniels (de Kooning was an incorrigible alcoholic) to ask the modern master of painting and drawing, at the peak of his career, if he could erase one of his drawings. de Kooning wasn't very happy with the request but granted the young unknown painter his wish.
