Paulo Branco
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Paulo Branco at IFFR
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Vale Abraao
Manoel de Oliveira | 187' | Portugal | -
A monumental and mysterious film indirectly based on the classic of classics: Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert. Stimulated by the enthusiasm that his cutter… -
The end of the world
Joao Mário Grilo | 64' | Portugal | -
This film is the last of a series based on the four elements (water, earth, fire and air). The earlier parts were made by Joao… -
Le prestige de la mort
Luc Moullet | 85' | France | None
Old hand Luc Moullet (Les naufrages de la D17) plays himself and yet also someone else in his own film. He switches identity with a… -
Transe
Teresa Villaverde | 126' | France | None
One of the masterpieces of the past year is about the nightmare of the young Russian Sonia, who seeks her fortune in the affluent West… -
Body Rice
Hugo Vieira da Silva | 120' | Portugal | None
Joy Division and dancing with robots. A young German delinquent is sent to Portugal for rehabilitation programme, where she and her fellow sufferers a -
As bodas de Deus
Joao César Monteiro | 150' | France | -
Monteiro himself enthusiastically plays a dirty old man who chases after young girls. Crudeness juxtaposed with refined absurdity and classic eruditio -
Le temps retrouvé
Raúl Ruiz | 158' | France | -
Film version of Marcel Proust’s magnum opus. His reminiscences of decadent society life in nineteenth-century Paris mingle into the fictional reality -
Klimt (director’s cut)
Raúl Ruiz | 129' | Austria | World première
A virtuoso homage to an artist and his life, the film is set against the rich historical tapestry of the fin de siècle. Screening of… -
Seven Invisible Men
Sharunas Bartas | 119' | France | None
No real talkers, Bartas’ characters. On the steppes of the Crimea, a group of dropouts, losers and criminals come together. These sombre and drinking -
Alex
José Alcala | 100' | France | None
In his feature début, José Alcala manages to outline the situation of his protagonist Alex, impressively played by the unknown Marie Raynal, in a coup