When Ana’s daughter confronts her by exclaiming: “Why do you waste your time taking care of this Dracula’s castle, when nobody is ever around?”, we begin to ponder the ultimate meaning of subserviance and indebting oneself when that love isn’t returned? In their latest cinematic achievement, the directorial duo João Miller Guerra and Filipa Reis, will allude to themes of liminal spaces and rural work impacting the inner life, as well as the the generation gap, the disintegration of the working-class family, while the ultimate point is eluding us. Légua premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section.
We’re first greeted by a sight of a middle-aged woman, Ana (Carla Maciel), dancing to a pop song, as she’s dressing intimately and making herself ready for the loving embrace of her husband, who is always away working seasonal construction jobs in France.
We’re first greeted by a sight of a middle-aged woman, Ana (Carla Maciel), dancing to a pop song, as she’s dressing intimately and making herself ready for the loving embrace of her husband, who is always away working seasonal construction jobs in France.
- 8/7/2023
- by Nikola Jovic
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Légua” by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra has its world premiere in Directors Fortnight. Reis and Miller Guerra previously co-helmed the Cape Verde-set debut feature, “Djon Africa” (2018), and several documentaries.
“Légua” is produced by the company, Uma Pedra no Sapato, which Reis founded in 2008 and ranks as one of Portugal’s leading independent production companies.
The pic is set in the rural village of Légua in the North of Portugal, between Amarante and Marco de Canaveses. One of the main characters is an old country house that has been deserted by its heirs and is looked after by the ailing elderly housekeeper, Emilia, assisted by Ana (played by Carla Maciel (“Diamantino”), whose husband emigrates to work in France, leaving her to look after Emilia and her own restless teenage daughter, Mónica.
The film explores a world in decay, embodied by three women from different generations.
Several scenes dispense with...
“Légua” is produced by the company, Uma Pedra no Sapato, which Reis founded in 2008 and ranks as one of Portugal’s leading independent production companies.
The pic is set in the rural village of Légua in the North of Portugal, between Amarante and Marco de Canaveses. One of the main characters is an old country house that has been deserted by its heirs and is looked after by the ailing elderly housekeeper, Emilia, assisted by Ana (played by Carla Maciel (“Diamantino”), whose husband emigrates to work in France, leaving her to look after Emilia and her own restless teenage daughter, Mónica.
The film explores a world in decay, embodied by three women from different generations.
Several scenes dispense with...
- 5/24/2023
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
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 Portugal for you with some clips from the Directors’ Fortnight selected film. In one instance we have a non-heated bed-making polite exchange between Ana (Carla Maciel) and the elder Emília (Fátima Soares). Ana will essentially take over for the other – a changing of the guard of one person who is relinquishing the title and symbolically going down with the ship. Here every object (even a blanket) has a function, purpose and raison d’être. In the other clip, we find Ana and her teenage daughter in conflict – we have chickens running loose reminding us that we are in a rural setting, there is not much in the realm of possibilities for the next generation and that the outside world might have more to offer.…
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- 5/15/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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 Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra‘s sophomore fiction feature Légua.
A two-hander set at a sumptuous estate in the north of Portugal deserted by its heirs is now home only to a bigoted elderly housekeeper (Fátima Soares plays the ageing Emília). As she carries out her household chores punctiliously, she is assisted by Ana (a Carla Maciel who is firmly planted in the past as the poster suggests) whose laborer husband has gone to work in France, leaving her and their restless teenage daughter behind.…...
A two-hander set at a sumptuous estate in the north of Portugal deserted by its heirs is now home only to a bigoted elderly housekeeper (Fátima Soares plays the ageing Emília). As she carries out her household chores punctiliously, she is assisted by Ana (a Carla Maciel who is firmly planted in the past as the poster suggests) whose laborer husband has gone to work in France, leaving her and their restless teenage daughter behind.…...
- 5/8/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Darren Aronofsky-produced Brazilian title “Pacified,” by American director Paxton Winters, Alice Winocour’s French-German astronaut drama “Proxima” and Polish film director Małgorzata Szumowska’s religious thriller “The Other Lamb” are among the six final competition selections for September’s 67th San Sebastian Film Festival.
Also vying for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell will be U.K. drama “Rocks,” from “Suffragette” director Sarah Gavron, Sonthar Gyal’s Chinese production “Lhamo And Skalbe” and Gonçalo Waddington’s Portuguese-German kidnap mystery “Patrick.”
Adding three works from female filmmakers, San Sebastian has brought the number of competition contenders directed by women to six, just over one-third of the section.
“Pacified,” starring Bukassa Kabengele, Cassia Nascimento and José Loreto, centers on the friendship between a street-smart 13-year-old girl and an ex-trafficker who live in a Rio favela.
In “Proxima,” Eva Green stars as an astronaut and single mother who signs up for a year-long space mission,...
Also vying for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell will be U.K. drama “Rocks,” from “Suffragette” director Sarah Gavron, Sonthar Gyal’s Chinese production “Lhamo And Skalbe” and Gonçalo Waddington’s Portuguese-German kidnap mystery “Patrick.”
Adding three works from female filmmakers, San Sebastian has brought the number of competition contenders directed by women to six, just over one-third of the section.
“Pacified,” starring Bukassa Kabengele, Cassia Nascimento and José Loreto, centers on the friendship between a street-smart 13-year-old girl and an ex-trafficker who live in a Rio favela.
In “Proxima,” Eva Green stars as an astronaut and single mother who signs up for a year-long space mission,...
- 8/22/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
"Something magical happened when I played." Kino Lorber has debuted an official Us trailer for the wacky, brilliant, one-of-a-kind "high camp" indie comedy Diamantino, from directors Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt. This Portuguese film premiered in the Critics' Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and stopped by a bunch of major film festivals throughout the film. "Tabu's Carloto Cotta gives the finest comic performance in recent memory as the dimwitted Portuguese soccer superstar of the title, a burlesqued version of Cristiano Ronaldo, swept up in a complicated comic conundrum involving the refugee crisis, Secret Service skullduggery, mad science genetic modification, and a right-wing anti-EU conspiracy." This is easily one of the most creative, original, and hilarious films I saw last year and I definitely recommend it - a "high-camp" international discovery that will be a cult classic very soon. Also stars Cleo Tavares, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira,...
- 5/6/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Review by Peter BelsitoPortuguese soccer icon Diamantino is the most famous person in the world.
So the film begins. And gets crazier as it moves along but in a very funny way.
After blowing his team’s chances at the 2018 World Cup, Portuguese soccer icon Diamantino retreats in shame to his amazing palatial home. Bereft of purpose, confused and desperate to atone for his act of national humiliation, he is convinced to adopt an African refugee youth in a naive attempt to reinject meaning into his shattered life.
While awaiting the arrival of his new son, he becomes the unwitting victim of a government tax investigation, a neo-fascist plot to seize power, and the daily machinations of his cartoonishly villainous twin sisters.
It doesn’t happen that often that when you see something that takes you completely by surprise.
Diamantino, from the directorial duo of Gabriel Abrantes from Portugal and U.
So the film begins. And gets crazier as it moves along but in a very funny way.
After blowing his team’s chances at the 2018 World Cup, Portuguese soccer icon Diamantino retreats in shame to his amazing palatial home. Bereft of purpose, confused and desperate to atone for his act of national humiliation, he is convinced to adopt an African refugee youth in a naive attempt to reinject meaning into his shattered life.
While awaiting the arrival of his new son, he becomes the unwitting victim of a government tax investigation, a neo-fascist plot to seize power, and the daily machinations of his cartoonishly villainous twin sisters.
It doesn’t happen that often that when you see something that takes you completely by surprise.
Diamantino, from the directorial duo of Gabriel Abrantes from Portugal and U.
- 1/20/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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