Tagged: country: portugal
Miguel Gomes’ three-volume folk-tale-inspired Arabian Nights (As Mil e Uma Noites) reflects the reality and the disgrace of Portugal, going through the effects of the global economic crisis.
The YAM Magazine Team and a couple of guests voted for their favorite films of this decade… so far.
So many fascinating films this year have been written or co-written by women, and it’s about time we give a toast to this talented bunch.
Gebo is an honest collector who tries to protect his sour and tormented wife, Doroteia, from the idea of having a thief son- João is an unscrupulous greedy man who has been missing for the past eight years and has just come back home to steal money without showing any kind of mercy.
This is a comedy… of sorts, about a Russian immigrant in Portugal who’s married to a small-time crook who starts to make a living out of selling fake passports to illegal immigrants. Ah, the Land of the Free.
Hay Road is a Portuguese drama with Western semblance and a political message. Set in the beginning of the 20th century when the monarchy was about to give its place to the republic, it was inspired by David Henry Thoreau’s writings concerning the justice and moral of the State.
Favorites from this and other years in movies, TV, and books.
Guilt and colonialism haunt time and place in one of the best films of 2012.
All the good things present in Cosmopolis are negatively outweighed by its screenplay.
The event of the week is the beginning of the Shanghai International Film Festival, starting on June 16th and ending the 24th, showcasing a broad variety of films… including A LOT of Japanese films in its different programs.