“I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!” 1945 | 1h31’ [UK] | LIGHTS IN THE CAVE XI Cnma Scrngs

Ciclo LUZES NA CAVERNA XI | ”A imagem como encantamento do real.”:

[Lights in the Cave XI Cinema Screenings: “The image as enchantment of the real.”]

“I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!”

1945 | M/12 | 1h31’ [UK] (Sei para onde vou! - PT)

De Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger

Sexta Dia 08/05 às 19h30 [Friday 05/08 at 7:30pm]
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Some films seem to emerge from a simple hypothesis: what if the world were still capable of surprising us?
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, belongs to that rare category of works in which cinema does not attempt to master reality — it seeks to rediscover its mystery.
The story appears straightforward: Joan Webster, a determined and pragmatic young woman, travels to the Hebrides to marry a wealthy man she barely knows. But a storm prevents the final crossing to the island of Kiloran. What initially seems like a mere logistical delay slowly becomes an experience of inner displacement. Time suspends itself. The carefully calculated plan begins to unravel.
Powell and Pressburger film the Scottish landscape as if it were more than a setting: an invisible force that intervenes in the narrative. The wind, the sea, the tides, the local legends, and the unexpected encounters create an atmosphere in which destiny no longer appears as a rational project, but as something that emerges from the world itself.
Here, cinema performs an ancient gesture: to enchant the real once again.
Not through fantasy or spectacle, but through a deep attention to what surrounds us. As if nature — and the human encounters that unfold within it — still held the power to divert our plans and reopen the future.

**(Curatorship by Alexandre Braga