Tag Archives: Portugal

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 »

Spino, a 50-year-old pathologist, works at the city morgue. Read More »

Cipriano Lopes & D.Rosa Gonçalves are shopkeepers and hate each other. Read More »

Roberto is a dandy! An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. Read More »

A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman’s journey in Siberia. Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »