Tag Archives: Portugal

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. Read More »

Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. Read More »

A bleak drama about street children abandoned by the Portuguese juvenile system, Os Mutantes/The Mutants was immediately controversial in Portugal Read More »

In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime’s secret police. Read More »

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog Beach. Read More »

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 »

Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »

A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Read More »

Belle toujours happened to me suddenly and, as I had the will to pay my tribute to Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, I had been happy to have discovered a means to accomplish this, Read More »

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Read More »

A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal. Read More »

Four versions of the same story, first in the perspective of a theatre play, second in the perspective of a silent film Read More »

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. Read More »

As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films Read More »