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This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him.Read More »
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Paulo Rocha – O Desejado ou As Montanhas da Lua AKA Les montagnes de la lune (1987)
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Rita Azevedo Gomes – Altar (2003)
Rita Azevedo Gomes2001-2010ArthouseDramaPortugalQuote:
René, an actor, who has long lived withdrawn from reality after the death of his wife, Hélène. Proud in his isolation, he rarely sees anyone, yet enjoys spending hours on the phone with friends. His ghosts from a distant past haunt him. The deep restlessness of a first love remain indecipherable as before. Like Hermann Hesse’s short story Juin, from which the film is freely inspired by, it is about the mysteries of memory, about the strength of its expression through the spoken word. On the strength of the word as cinematic image.Read More » -
Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes – Diários de Otsoga AKA The Tsugua Diaries (2021)
Maureen Fazendeiro2021-2030ArthouseExperimentalMiguel GomesPortugalIMDb wrote:
Follows Crista, Carloto and João who are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden and share household routines, but they are not the only ones.A COVID-era vacation story told in reverse, starting with Day 22 and working itself back to Day 1. The proposition is a bit gimmicky, but I found the results moving and fun, one of my favorites of the year.Read More »
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Miguel Gomes – Redemption (2013)
Miguel Gomes2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryPortugalOn January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3rd 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head. But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?Read More »
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Manuela Serra – O Movimento das Coisas (1985)
1981-1990DocumentaryManuela SerraPortugalA film-documentary which has been very praised by many Portuguese critics / bloggers.
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“A sua singularidade define ao mesmo tempo um modelo – de cinema, de autor, de um país, de uma época –, se esse modelo pudesse ser constituído sob a forma da indefinição e do inacabamento”.“Its uniqueness defines also a model – of cinema, of auteur, of a country, of a time – if that model could be established under the form of vagueness and of incompleteness.”Read More »
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Thiago M. Abrahão – A Floresta Proibida AKA The Forbidden Forest (2021)
2021-2030ExperimentalPortugalThiago M. AbrahãoPlot: Life, from childhood to death through poetry, music and images from the past, which rests in the memory of those who stayed behind.Read More »
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Vítor Gonçalves – A Vida Invisível AKA The Invisible Life (2013)
2011-2020DramaPortugalVítor GonçalvesNight falls over Lisbon. But Hugo can’t go home. Antonio has died, and for some reason, he can’t stop thinking about his old love, Adriana.
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The youth uncertainty of A Girl in Summer becomes middle age regret. A whole country in suspension living in a haunted house covered in shadows. A truly invisible life. This would make a great double bill with Horse Money, both reports on the Portuguese living dead from different class perspectives.Read More » -
António de Macedo – As Horas de Maria AKA Maria’s Hours (1979)
António de Macedo1971-1980ArthouseDramaPortugalA young girl with an undisclosed ailment is comforted by a nun who is her aunt in this symbolic, slow-moving drama. The action takes place in a clinic where the head doctor regards Christ as a subversive and a revolutionary. The victim’s religious faith remains intact, even when she is on the verge of death as her aunt prays for her salvation. ~ Dan Pavlides, RoviRead More »
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Salomé Lamas – Eldorado XXI (2016)
2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryPortugalSalomé LamasSet in the highest settlement in the world, La Rinconada y Cerro Lunar (5500m), in the Peruvian Andes. Moved by the same interests as in the ancient times, people live and work in the most precarious of conditions. An illusion of gold and a better life leads men to self destruction.Read More »