1936年夏天，在巴兰科斯、穆朗和坎普·马约尔附近的边境地区发生的一些真实故事，描绘了生活在葡萄牙一侧的拉伊亚人所看到的西班牙内战的场景。
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário de Sá-Carneiro (in Paris). Their endless conversation was dramatically and suddenly terminated.
America is a legend, an idea. To rediscover the traces of such an idea within the reality of a city requires a transformation of this very city into ideas and legends, to the point that life and death, the real and the imaginary, past and future, that which can be communicated, and that which cannot, high and low are open to a contradictory understanding.
In Portuguese Africa in 1973, a small platoon of soldiers is stranded, prey both to an unseen guerrilla enemy and to their own doubts about the war they are waging. Twelve years on, an elderly couple, still mourning the death of their son in the African campaign, make one last visit to their surviving children, now grown up and living in Lisbon. Botelho's delicately mesmerising...
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It's their secret. Cla...
黑人移工里奥莫名从工地一跃而下，陷入昏迷；护士玛丽安娜为了逃离她在里斯本的生活，自愿陪着里奥回到家乡――前葡萄牙殖民地佛得角。在这个岩浆不断喷发的火山岛上，不谙方言的她虽无法与当地人沟通，却能感受到一股神祕的死亡力量，并经历了一段无疾而终的爱情。在玛丽安娜的私密旅程中，关于殖民的伤痕、爱与孤独之忧郁意象不言而喻。
