Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise.
In 1974, the Portuguese and their descendants fled Angola where nationalist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Then, a Portuguese squad is barracked inside a wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
You won’t instantly notice the great burden resting on Bela’s shoulders at the well-to-do family’s picnic. This free adaptation of Kleist’s story Der Findling has shifted location to Portugal in the mid-16th century. The seemingly bold young man Bela is from a poor neighbourhood in Lisbon. He was adopted by the family to replace the merchant’s real son, who never returned from ...
葡萄牙名導Tiago Guedes第五部劇情長片以一幕美麗懾人的場景作為開場,靜謐的鄉村小鎮卻發生一連串慘案,永遠改變了Joao Fernandez的一生。20年後,葡萄牙受右翼的第二共和國政權統治,這時的Joao已是名富有的地主,並成為家族裡最具主見的領導人。由Joao帶領的家族勢力在接下來的40餘年,都將在葡萄牙歷史中佔有重要地位,不僅與動盪不定的政治、社會變遷相抗衡,家族埋藏已久的秘密與謊言也將水落石出。導演Guedes以19世紀葡萄牙文學家Jose Maria Eca de Queiroz的現實主義故事為主軸,創造出獨一無二的藝術視角,聚焦傳統大家族的內部關係如何受外在世界所影響,結果如同另一名19世紀文學家所言:「一切堅固的事物都終將煙消雲散」。
十四岁的约翰从小就生长在修道院中,没有亲人,亦没有过去。一天,一位神秘的妇人安吉拉(玛利亚·若奥·巴斯托斯 Maria Joo Bastos 饰)找到了约翰,声称自己是他的亲生母亲,并且向约翰讲述了她曾经的故事。
安吉拉是侯爵的女儿,她和伯爵之子席尔瓦(何塞·阿方索·皮蒙特尔 José Afonso Pimentel 饰)相爱,遭到了父亲的强烈反对。然而,叛逆的安吉拉并没有屈服,她腹中怀着席尔瓦的孩子,决定与其私奔。暴怒的侯爵派出杀手刺杀席尔瓦,甚至连安吉拉腹中的胎儿也不放过,幸运的是,安吉拉得到了一位神父和令一位神秘人的帮助,约翰才得以长大。成年之后,约翰来到巴黎,遇见了一位贵妇,他答应帮助贵妇找到杀死她哥哥的凶手,让约翰没有想到的是,这名凶手竟然正是当初帮助过他和他母亲的神秘人。