25 de Abril – Uma aventura para a demokracya
What has happened to the Carnation Revolution’s dreams and aspirations? Does cinema have the answer – and will we like it?
16'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
Raymond Vachs has been living in Portugal for ages – so long in fact, that his family is more from there than the old country: France. Raymond has also seen how the country has changed over the years, decidedly for the worse, and is therefore not exactly delighted about his daughter’s choice of husband: a 'gumba' with government connections who gets calls from some dud(e) called Donald. But now the wedding day has come – and Raymond, after some insults and slights by the new power elite, finally cracks: his will be the longest night of the soul, during which he’ll vent all his anger and disgust at the Tagus.
When Pêra wrote the first outlines for his third Branquinho da Fonseca-adaptation, the film’s vision of a (not so) crypto-oligarchical state with military types and business thugs calling the shots felt like a science fiction lark – now this colourful delirium, this psychedelic meltdown almost feels like a documentary.
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
An overdue tribute to one of world cinema's most unpredictable voices: Edgar Pêra, sound-image philosopher, performer, natural born rebel, eternal modernist, political satirist extraordinaire.
Read more about this programmeWhat has happened to the Carnation Revolution’s dreams and aspirations? Does cinema have the answer – and will we like it?
16'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
On the absurdities of a country riddled with economic crisis trying to look powerful and important by way of architectural grand-standing.
23'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns with terror over his fiefdom's commoners. Horror meets musical comedy. Disquieting political allegory.
91'
Portugal
IFFR 2019