
In the suburb of Sampaio, Zulmira visits a fortune teller (Madame Crisálida) who advises her to be careful with a ‘blonde woman’. Read More »
Tag Archives: portuguese
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 »
Mango Yellow (2002) Cláudio Assis, Matheus Nachtergaele, Jonas Bloch, Leona Cavalli

Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters Read More »
Unicorn (2017) Eduardo Nunes, Bárbara Luz, Patricia Pillar, Zécarlos Machado

A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. 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 »
Alice’s House (2007) Chico Teixeira, Carla Ribas, Berta Zemel, Vinicius Zinn

Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children 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 »
Baron Olavo, the Horrible (1970) Júlio Bressane, Rodolfo Arena, Helena Ignez, Isabella

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. 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 »
Hopefuls (2015) Ives Rosenfeld, Ariclenes Barroso, Sergio Malheiros, Julia Bernat

Junior, as he’s known since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. Read More »