Overview of articles
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O espectador espantado
Playful and very wayward – it is after all a film by Edgar Pêra – documentary essay about the viewer. Interviews with a variety of…Published on: -
Visita ou memórias e confissões
When he was 73, the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira shot a beautifully personal film “by me, and about me” in his own home in…Published on: -
Cavalo Dinheiro
As an expressionist baroque master, Costa continues on his wayward path. The film crawls, as it were, into the head of Ventura (also to be…Published on: -
O Convento
Burlesque and profound film by the cineaste who was once called a primitive genius. With Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich.Published on: -
João Bénard da Costa – Others Will Love the Things I Loved
A delicately painted, loving portrait of one of the essential faces from the Portuguese film world. At the same time, this posthumous homage is an…Published on: -
Terra Estrangeira
Realistic drama about a generation in crisis is lost in a land that is insecure about its identity. Second films.Published on: -
Mined Soil
Alentejo, Guinea-Bissau and Cabral are intertwined in definitions of soil as a repository of exploitation, crisis, arsenal, treasure and palimpsest.Published on: -
The Wolf’s Lair
Every family has its secrets, the family of Portuguese filmmaker Mourão included. As the granddaughter of the well-known writer Tomaz de Figueiredo, sPublished on: -
The Golden Triangle
Romantic portrait of woman who can’t or doesn’t want to stand still. She’s travelling. Travelling forever. And never coming back forever. Not even toPublished on: -
A Comédia de Deus
Erudite, ironic and erotic comedy. The film-maker is ice-cream maker and pubic-hair collector.Published on: