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A young Portuguese man, exiled in Paris, often visits the country, between April 25th 1974 and October 1978, without choosing to settle on ether, due to the social-political situation – a behavior developed by his experiences in foreign countries, the transformations made in his original family environment and, in particular, in the relationships he keeps.
The story of his experience is reveled through several female portraits, and successive temporal-geographic landscapes.Read More »
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In this comic political farce, the protagonist thinks her home in Lisbon on Washington Street is really The White House! Surrounded by female supporters, she proclaims’I am the President of the U.S.A., I can do whatever I want.’ She locks her mother in the basement and on her birthday, throws a huge party in honor of her re-election, while making plans to control the entire world. …The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States ( A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente Dos EUA )Read More »
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For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, (played by José Afonso Pimentel) the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father (played by João Lagarto) is like a dream come true. It’s a time for them to become re-acquainted and it’s also a time for his first girlfriend and annoying questions to his father about love and sex.Read More »