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Tag Archives: Portugal
A Vizinha do Lado (1945) António Lopes Ribeiro, Silvestre Alegrim, Carlos Alves, Emilia D’Oliveira
The ethicist, Placido Mesquita, coming to Lisbon to visit his nephew Edward to rescue him from a damnable life of bad habits Read More »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
Eldorado XXI (2016) Salomé Lamas
This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life. Read More »