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Affonso Beato is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 13 july 1941 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)

Affonso Beato

Affonso Beato
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Birth name Affonso Henrique Beato
Nationality USA
Birth 13 july 1941 (82 years) at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)

Affonso Henrique Beato (born July 13, 1941) is a Brazilian cinematographer.

Beato was born in Rio de Janeiro. He started his cinematic career during the 1960s, gaining international recognition with his work on Glauber Rocha's Antonio das Mortes (1969).

From the 1970s, he started an international career, notably collaborating with directors Jim McBride (The Big Easy, Great Balls of Fire! and others) and Pedro Almodóvar (The Flower of My Secret, Live Flesh and All About My Mother). In 2004, he worked on fellow Brazilian Walter Salles's first Hollywood effort Dark Water.

Best films

The Queen (2006)
(Director of Photography)
All About My Mother (1999)
(Director of Photography)
Ghost World (2001)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Glauber Rocha
Glauber Rocha
(1 films)
Jim McBride
Jim McBride
(6 films)
Rudolf Thome
Rudolf Thome
(1 films)
Arnaldo Jabor
Arnaldo Jabor
(1 films)
Hugo Carvana
Hugo Carvana
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Affonso Beato (30 films)

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Actor

Cameraman

Time and the Wind, 1h55
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Thiago Lacerda, Marjorie Estiano, Fernanda Montenegro, Cléo Pires, Mayana Moura, Vanessa Lóes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.352993.352993.352993.352993.35299
Based on the novel's trilogy of the same name, by Erico Verissimo, Time and the Wind follows 150 years of family Terra Cambará and their opponent Amaral family. The history of struggles between the two families begins in the missions and runs until the end of the 19th century. The film also features the period of formation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the dispute of territory between the Portuguese and Spanish crowns.
Cinema Verite, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Thomas Dekker, Kaitlyn Dever
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.242593.242593.242593.242593.24259
Au début des années 1970, le récit de la création et de la diffusion de An American Family, première émission de télé-réalité, et de ses protagonistes, la famille Loud.
Nights in Rodanthe, 1h37
Directed by George C. Wolfe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Richard Gere, Diane Lane, James Franco, Viola Davis, Christopher Meloni, Becky Ann Baker
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0021153.0021153.0021153.0021153.002115
While picking up his son and daughter for a weekend visit, Jack (Christopher Meloni) tells his estranged wife Adrienne (Diane Lane) that he still "loves her" and wants to move back home. (It is made clear that Jack left his family for another woman.) Adrienne suggests that his remorse is due to his falling out with the other woman, but in any event says she needs time and space to think. The rift that this causes between the daughter and her mother is palpable. Typical teenage angst and rebellion follow and Adrienne is sure she is losing her daughter over the events that are unfolding in her marriage.
Love in the Time of Cholera, 2h19
Directed by Mike Newell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Angie Cepeda, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Héctor Elizondo
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2013953.2013953.2013953.2013953.201395
In late 19th century Cartagena, a river port in Colombia, Florentino Ariza falls in love at first sight with Fermina Daza. They secretly correspond and she eventually agrees to marry but her father discovers their relationship and sends her to distant relatives (mainly her grandmother and niece). When she returns some years later, Fermina agrees to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, her father's choice. Their fifty-year marriage is outwardly loving, but inwardly marred by darker emotions. Fermina's marriage devastates Florentino, who vows to remain a virgin, but his self-denial is thwarted by a tryst. To help him get over Fermina, his mother throws a willing widow into his bed and he discovers that sex is a very good pain reliever with which he replaces the opium that he had habitually smoked. He begins to record and describe each of his sexual encounters, beginning with the widow, and eventually compiling over 600 entries. A lowly clerk, he plods resolutely over many years to approach the wealth and social standing of Dr. Urbino. When the now-elderly doctor dies suddenly, Florentino immediately and impertinently renews courting Fermina.
The Queen
The Queen (2006)
, 1h39
Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.64813.64813.64813.64813.6481
In the 1997 general election, Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) becomes Britain's Labour prime minister. However, the Queen (Helen Mirren) is wary of Blair and his pledge to modernise Britain, despite his promises to respect the Royal Family. Three months later, Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car crash at the Alma Bridge tunnel in Paris. Blair's director of communications, Alastair Campbell (Mark Bazeley), prepares a speech in which Diana is described as the people's princess. The phrase catches on and millions of people across London display an outpouring of grief at Buckingham and Kensington Palaces. Meanwhile, the Royal Family is still at their summer estate in Balmoral Castle. Diana's death sparks division amongst members of the family, with some of the view that since Diana was divorced from Prince Charles (Alex Jennings) a year prior to her death, she was no longer a part of the royal family. They argue that Diana's funeral arrangements are thus best left as a private affair of her noble family, the Spencers. Charles, however, argues that the mother of a future king cannot be dismissed so lightly, and persuades the Queen to authorise the use of an aircraft of the Royal Air Force to bring Diana's body back to Britain.
Dark Water
Dark Water (2005)
, 1h45
Directed by Walter Salles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Jennifer Connelly, Tim Roth, John C. Reilly, Dougray Scott, Ariel Gade, Pete Postlethwaite
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.800072.800072.800072.800072.80007
The film opens in 1974, as a young girl, Dahlia, stands outside after school in the rain, waiting for her mother.
God Is Brazilian, 1h50
Directed by Carlos Diegues
Origin Bresil
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about religion, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Antônio Fagundes, Wagner Moura, Hugo Carvana, Stepan Nercessian, Susana Werner
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9557052.9557052.9557052.9557052.955705
Taoca, a part-time fisherman and small-time con artist, finds a man holding on to a buoy in the middle of the ocean. The man claims he is God, but Taoca doesn't believe him until he performs some miracles.
View from the Top, 1h27
Directed by Bruno Barreto
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion
Actors Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen, Kelly Preston, Christina Applegate, Rob Lowe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53% 2.652052.652052.652052.652052.65205
Donna Jensen is a girl from a small town in Nevada who wishes to see the world in order to get away from her unhappy life of living in a trailer with her alcoholic mother, a former Las Vegas showgirl, and her abusive, alcoholic stepfather, where she feels miserable and lonely. After graduating from high school, Donna tries to make ends meet by working as a clerk in a Big Lots.
Dot the I
Dot the I (2003)
, 1h32
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy, Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox, Michael Elwyn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.34563.34563.34563.34563.3456
Carmen, a young Spanish woman who is engaged to be married, has her hen night at a French restaurant in London. She is invited to participate in the observance of an old custom which allows her to kiss the stranger of her choice before the marriage, symbolically "kissing her single life goodbye" and bringing luck for the future. The man she chooses is Kit and both enjoy the kiss far more than they have intended. They fall in love, which creates a "love triangle" among Carmen, her fiancé Barnaby, and Kit.
Ghost World, 1h51
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Steve Buscemi, Pat Healy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.648873.648873.648873.648873.64887
Best friends Enid and Rebecca face summer after their high-school graduation. The girls are social outcasts, but Rebecca is more popular with boys than Enid. Enid's diploma is held on the condition that she attend a remedial art class. Even though she is a talented artist, her art teacher, Roberta, believes art must be socially meaningful and dismisses Enid's sketches as "light entertainment."
All About My Mother, 1h41
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Antonia San Juan, Candela Peña, Rosa Maria Sardà
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77% 3.8989853.8989853.8989853.8989853.898985
The film centers on Manuela, an Argentine nurse who oversees donor organ transplants in Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid and single mother to Esteban, a teenager who wants to be a writer.
Live Flesh
Live Flesh (1997)
, 1h41
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, José Sancho or Pepe Sancho, Ángela Molina, Penélope Cruz, Pilar Bardem
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.6478353.6478353.6478353.6478353.647835
Madrid, Christmas 1970: with the nation under a state of emergency ordered by the Franco regime, a young prostitute, Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penélope Cruz), gives birth on a bus to a son she names Victor. Twenty years later, Victor Plaza (Liberto Rabal) shows up for a date he made with Elena (Francesca Neri), a junkie with whom he had sex a week earlier. Waiting for her dealer to arrive, Elena is not interested in seeing Victor and tells him to leave. Finally she gets a gun and orders him out of the flat. Enraged, Victor wrestles the gun from her; in the process Elena gets knocked out, and the gun goes off.
The Informant, 1h45
Directed by Jim McBride
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Cary Elwes, Timothy Dalton, John Kavanagh, Seán McGinley, Stuart Graham, Ciarán Fitzgerald
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.147443.147443.147443.147443.14744
It tells the story of Sean Pius McAnally "Gingy" (Anthony Brophy) and the journey he makes on his way to becoming a supergrass. Gingy is reluctantly pulled out of retirement in a caravan in the Republic of Ireland by two IRA men who bring him back to Belfast to perform one last job due to his skill with an RPG. On their way back they are stopped by a British Army patrol led by Lt David Ferris who introduces himself to Gingy. Gingy initially refuses the job but realises he has no choice after the Chief of the Belfast Brigade briefs him and threatens him. The job entails the killing of a judge using an RPG, during the getaway the gang smash through a roadblock and one of the soldiers from the previous patrol recognises Gingy from the previous checkpoint.