Tag: Portuguese Cinema
Grand Tour | Review
Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey
In what serves as an extremely taxing personification of cold feet, Miguel Gomes feels as if he’s...
Interview: Denise Fernandes – Hanami (Red Sea Intl. Film Festival)
Threading the line between magical realism and potent coming-of-age drama, Denise Fernandes' Hanami is an ambitious debut feature. Filming on location in Cape Verde,...
Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Wind Carries On: Mateus Crafts Political Fable Fusing Past & Present
In her debut film, Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind), which finds a...
Savanna and the Mountain | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Once Upon a Time in Barroso: Carneiro Speaks Truth to Power
Opening with the gusto of a faded fairy tale, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Carneiro’s Savanna...
Interview: João Canijo – Bad Living (Mal Viver)
Taking home the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlinale, Portuguese auteur João Canijo's latest Bad Living (Mal Viver) is the director's masterpiece, examining the...
Exclusive: Clips for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
Last week we featured the poster one-sheet for Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra’s Légua - and now we have a bit more of...
Exclusive: Poster for Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra’s Légua – 2023 Directors’ Fortnight Selection
Set to have its world premiere screening (05.23) in the Directors' Fortnight section, we have your exclusive first look at poster one-sheet for tandem...
Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama
“Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it...
Bad Living | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
The Best Exotic Portugal Hotel: Canijo Examines Motherhood as Misanthropy in Masterful Familial Miasma
The women handling the specialty boutique hotel in Joao Canijo’s Mal...
Wolf and Dog (Lobo e Cão) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Dog Gone: Varejão Explores the Stifling Conditions of Traditions in the Portugal Archipelago
Portuguese documentary filmmaker Cláudia Varejão crosses completely into narrative territory with her...
