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Agenda Municipal / Movies Desert Rose

Desert Rose
Thu 25 Sep
Joane Film Club Programme


Casa das Artes | Small auditorium – 21h45

General admission: €4 | Students: €2 | Free for Joane Film Club members | Portugal, 1989 | Directed by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro | Cast: Ana Umbelina, Balbina Ferro, Cristina de Jesús, Lia Nascimento | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 85 min

António Reis' last film, completed about two years before his death, was once again a joint effort with Margarida Cordeiro. Once again, it is a pilgrimage through Portugal, as a place of myth and as a mythical place. It is also a pilgrimage between the ‘initial twilight of history’ and the ‘final dawn’, in a circle that is, like the sand rose, one of his most constant metaphors. It is also a pilgrimage between medieval visions (the most unforgettable being the trial and execution of a pig, based on a real event) and Carl Sagan's visions of the future.


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