Paulo Branco
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Paulo Branco at IFFR
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Vale Abraao
A monumental and mysterious film indirectly based on the classic of classics: Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert. Stimulated by the enthusias
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The end of the world
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 Monteiro, Joao Botel
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Le prestige de la mort
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 dead man, but t
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Transe
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 but soon fin
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Body Rice
Joy Division and dancing with robots. A young German delinquent is sent to Portugal for rehabilitation programme, where she and her fellow sufferer
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As bodas de Deus
Monteiro himself enthusiastically plays a dirty old man who chases after young girls. Crudeness juxtaposed with refined absurdity and classic erudi
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Le temps retrouvé
Film version of Marcel Proust’s magnum opus. His reminiscences of decadent society life in nineteenth-century Paris mingle into the fictional
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Klimt (director’s cut)
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 the director
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Seven Invisible Men
No real talkers, Bartas’ characters. On the steppes of the Crimea, a group of dropouts, losers and criminals come together. These sombre and
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Alex
In his feature début, José Alcala manages to outline the situation of his protagonist Alex, impressively played by the unknown Marie Raynal, in a c