Antonio Vitorino D'Almeida Movies
- 1981
This is one of the first political satires by a Portuguese director (Antonio Victorino D'Almeida) after the 1974 coup that overthrew Salazar. Among the director's targets is a member of Salazar's secret police who is neurotic about stepping in doggie-do. D'Almeida also gives a drubbing to a family that symbolizes the ruling elite: the patriarch has a non-job as a member of parliament. The sons in the family range from the propaganda-spouting youngest, who may not understand what Marx is about, to the skirt-chasing eldest who is obsessed with seducing the housemaid. Religion and Salazar's puritanical posturing also take hits. The title of this film has connotations of "guilt" and "blame" which do not necessarily come across in the weaker English translation of "fault." ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sinde Filipe, Mario Viegas, (more)
Renowned actress Maria de Medeiros directs this sweeping historical drama set in Portugal about the heady days leading up to April 25, 1974, when that country was finally freed from 40 years of Fascist rule. The film opens with a series of grisly black and white photographs of Portuguese war atrocities committed against its colonies -- Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. Antonia (de Medeiros) is a teacher who begs her minister-brother to release a couple of her students from the clutches of the secret police. As a result, she herself gets captured, interrogated, and tortured. At the same time, a young couple bid a tearful adieu at the train station just as the man, Capt. Maia (Stefano Accorsi) is drafted to fight in the colonies. Just before the youth gets shipped off to Africa, he manages to persuade the soldiers of a remote army outpost to rebel. Along with his buddies Lobao (Fele Martinez) and Antonia's ex-husband Manuel (Frederic Pierrot), Maia manages to storm a radio station and ultimately besiege the national guard barracks, which houses the president and military advisors. This film was screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, (more)
- 1969
- R
A young woman leaves her abusive husband to become the mistress of a married American living in Lisbon. He pays for her apartment, and she becomes a model. After an affair with a photographer and a small-time drug dealer, she manages to liberate herself from her dependency on male authority figures. She brings a new attitude and newfound personal freedom into her life while fighting in a society not ready to accept her views in this poignant drama. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Maria Cabral, Ruy de Carvalho, (more)
- 1994
This unique Portuguese film chronicles an eight hour period in Lisbon. It is part of a trilogy, Lisbon, 24 Hours that the city commissioned to celebrate its year as a European Capital of culture. This episode covering the hours 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. begins with a suicide and ends with a birth. Each of the vignettes are loosely involved with the others and cover a broad range of subjects including; two drunks returning home after a long boozy night; a man with murder on his mind, an English speaking couple making up; a fallen film star demonstrating a kiss; a ballet dancer's painful realization that she cannot dance. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Teresa Roby, Pedro Hestnes, (more)
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