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Even if adapted from Dickens’ Hard Times, the writer’s world fits perfectly in the Portuguese reality of these times. In a hamlet, that functions as a social microcosms, great wealth & extreme poverty mingle, so do culture, ignorance, perversion & ignorance. Griffith’s channelled via Júlia Britton.Read More »
João Botelho
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João Botelho – Tempos Difíceis AKA Hard Times (1988)
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João Botelho – A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente Dos EUA AKA The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States (2003)
João Botelho2001-2010ComedyPoliticsPortugalQuote:
In this comic political farce, the protagonist thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House! Surrounded by female supporters, she proclaims’I am the President of the U.S.A., I can do whatever I want.’ She locks her mother in the basement and on her birthday, throws a huge party in honor of her re-election, while making plans to control the entire world. …The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States ( A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente Dos EUA )Read More » -
João Botelho – Aqui na Terra AKA Here on Earth (1993)
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Miguel is a successful economist until his father’s death plunges him into a strange obscure world of fears, strange sounds and psychological isolation. He quits his job, drifts away from his wife and initiates a process of physical disintegration. He will reach the bottom before he starts seeing the light. As an echo to his journey, we follow, faraway in the countryside, the story of a crime and its redemption, the story of Antonio and Cecilia. From death to the miracle of life, here on earth.Read More » -
João Botelho – Tráfico AKA Traffic (1998)
1991-2000ArthouseComedyJoão BotelhoPortugalQuote:
It all begins when an average family (slightly chilly because they’re forced to take their vacation out of season) is struck by good fortune.
Jesus the couple’s young son, finds a hidden and forbidden treasure in the sands of a deserted beach: the wealth of the hearth.
The same day, and not so far away, two priests decide to close the doors to their church due to lack of a congregation, and auction off the images of their beloved saints.
Between the wealth of the heavens and the spirit of matter they embark on an adventure. A banker with auditory hallucinations when he talks about money.Read More » -
João Botelho – Quem És Tu? AKA Who Are You? (2001)
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Aged 13, Maria Noronha is an estremely pale and fragil girl, sick with tubercolosis. In order to alleviate her suffering, she gathers poppies from her garden, and at night puts them on the pillows on her bed. But the poppies have a devastating effect. Her deep sleep is disturbed by terrible ghosts and hallucinations: about the decadence of the Portuguese XVII century, the Jesuits’s power and the terrible Inquisition.Read More » -
João Botelho – Filme do Desassossego AKA The Film of Disquiet (2010)
2001-2010ArthouseJoão BotelhoPortugalSYNOPSIS:
A room in Lisbon. A man dreams and establishes a theory to make it come true. This film is based on The Book of Disquiet , the posthumous work of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It portrays the solitude of man through picturesque images and dramatic effects.Read More »