João César Monteiro – Veredas AKA Trails (1978)

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A poetic journey in the heart of Portugal. They were two. A man and a woman that met and traveled down from the Tras-os-Montes to the sea. Legends and steep and rocks, faces and sounds… In the film, the chant of a country’s history eight century long is passed on.

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For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glistening sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro’s mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.

Veredas.1978.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 0 min
Size: 	2.52 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	792x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.375
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 740 kb/s
BPP: 	0.250
Audio
#1:  	Portuguese 1.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Spectrum FRA Blu-ray 2025)

https://nitro.download/view/E8EB867CEE537F6/Veredas.1978.576p.BluRay.DD1.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English, French, Portuguese