Portugal, late sixties. Tomás Palma Bravo, the Dauphin, is the heir to a world in decay. Read More »
Tag Archives: Fernando Lopes
Belarmino (1964) Fernando Lopes, Belarmino Fragoso, Jean Pierre Gebler, Maria Teresa de Noronha
Former boxing champion Belarmino answers a psychological facing the camera in close-up. Read More »
Twist of Fate AKA Os Sorrisos do Destino (2009) Fernando Lopes, Ana Padrão, Rui Morrison, Milton Lopes, Teresa Tavares
Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband Read More »
Outside (2004) Fernando Lopes, Alexandra Lencastre, Rogério Samora, Maria João Abreu
Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly. Read More »
Chronicle of Good Hoodlums (1984) Fernando Lopes, Nuno Duarte, João Perry, Lia Gama
A gang decides to rob the Gulbenkian Museum, tired of their petty robberies. Read More »
Edge of the Horizon (1993) Fernando Lopes, Claude Brasseur, Andréa Ferréol, Ana Padrão
Spino, a 50-year-old pathologist, works at the city morgue. Read More »
98 Octane (2006) Fernando Lopes, Rogério Samora, Carla Chambel, Márcia Breia, Fernando Heitor
He doesn’t know her, she doesn’t know him, but somewhere on the highway between Lisbon and Porto, he stops to rest and there she is: as lost as he is. Read More »
Uma Abelha na Chuva / A Bee in the Rain (1972) Fernando Lopes, Laura Soveral, João Guedes, Zita Duarte, Drama
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. “Starting off from a fine novel by Carlos de Oliveira, Fernando Lopes doesn’t so mush reconstitute a story, but rather defines an atmosphere parallel to that which exists in the literary work. The erosion of time, the crumbling of an epoch, the decline of a stately home, the disintegration of emotions: the film version of A Bee in the Rain talks about all these things, using a language that is sparse and unpolished, fascinating and at the same time repulsive in its disturbing silence” (Lauro Antonio).
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