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Tag Archives: Portugal
Nightfall (1999) Fred Kelemen, Adolfo Assor, Thomas Baumann, Isa Hochgerner
Not everyone might know the directorial work of Fred Kelemen, though his name may be recognizable Read More »
Party (1996) Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira
The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money 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 »
River of Gold (1998) Paulo Rocha, Isabel Ruth, Lima Duarte, Joana Bárcia
Carolina (Isabel Ruth), an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river Read More »
The Radio Girl (1944) Arthur Duarte, Maria Matos, António Silva, Maria Eugénia
Cipriano Lopes & D.Rosa Gonçalves are shopkeepers and hate each other. Read More »
A Shot in the Dark (2005) Leonel Vieira, Joaquim de Almeida, Vanessa Mesquita, Filipe Duarte
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon Read More »
A Woman’s Revenge (2012) Rita Azevedo Gomes, Rita Durão, Fernando Rodrigues, Hugo Tourita
Roberto is a dandy! An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. Read More »
Forget Everything I’ve Told You (2002) António Ferreira, Custódia Gallego, António Capelo, Amélia Corôa, Fernando Taborda
Messias, the husband, a dentist, almost magician. Felizbela, the beautiful wife, almost happy. Read More »
Few of Us (1996) Sharunas Bartas, Yekaterina Golubeva, Piotr Kishteev, Sergei Tulayev
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman’s journey in Siberia. Read More »
Ana (1982) Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis, Ana Maria Martins Guerra, Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Octávio Lixa Filgueiras
It is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke’s poets with a local narrative. Read More »
The Strange Case of Angelica (2010) Manoel de Oliveira, Pilar López de Ayala, Filipe Vargas, Ricardo Trêpa
A magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Read More »
A Song of Lisbon (1933) José Cottinelli Telmo, Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. Read More »
Ala-Arriba! (1942) José Leitão de Barros, Ilidio Rocha Silvestre, Elsa Bea-Flor, João Moço
In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Read More »
No Mans Land (2012) Salomé Lamas, Paulo de Figueiredo
A mercenary sits in a chair on a sober setting in an abandoned palace in Lisbon, as if beginning to pose for a cinematic portrait. Read More »