The Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival has returned to the city of Lisbon. Celebrates this year its tenth anniversary and with it brings a programme filled. In the midst of much movie get here the tips of the Spreads-the Facts.
One of the film festivals, the most striking of the Portuguese capital arrives again to the rooms of the Monumental, Nimas and Estoril with a lineup of the best film of the Festival and even some of the retrospectives that we call particular attention, such as the display of all films in the career of one of the biggest names of the Nouvelle Vague French: Jean-Luc Godard.
In the middle of dozens of films is always difficult to choose what to go see. Is here with the suggestions of the Spreads-the Facts so that you do not let pass this Festival which, this year, has the Anna Karina as a mascot.
Akher Wahed Fina (The Last of Us) – Competition
Movie of the tunisian Ala Eddine Slim, passed this year by the Venice film Festival and debuts now in Portugal by LEFFEST in its competitive section. This is a film that reflects on the migration crisis that if you live in the countries that surround the Mediterranean, the search for a better life and, above all, about the humanism and state unhealthy of Mankind.
"N, a young african, crosses the desert with the goal of getting to north Africa and then be transported to Europe, in a clandestine manner. A victim of armed robbery, ends up in Tunisia and decides to go it alone the crossing of the Mediterranean. Steals a small boat, but this break in the middle of the sea. You start in this moment to embark on a journey surrealist, through unique places, full of encounters, fleeting but intense, in which N will be faced with a changed image of yourself."
Ang Babaeng Humayo (The Woman Who Left) – Out-of-Competition
Conducted by Lav Diaz, this film filipino won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice film Festival this year. It is a story that reflects on the Philippines of the 90′s, a time in which the population lived threatened, in a situation not far from the present.
"Horacia spent the last thirty years in prison. At times, out teacher of the primary school, and had led a life of quiet, helping others to practice reading and writing. When another convict confesses to the crime for which was convicted, Horacia is released and to meet his family. While the search for her missing son, Junior, rediscovers his native land – the Philippines of the nineties, and realizes that the population lives terrified by corruption and by outbreaks of the kidnapping violent. Your personality generous is then contaminated by a feeling of revenge."
La Fille Inconnue (The Unkown Girl) – Out-of-Competition
This is the latest movie of the brothers Dardenne. Was in Cannes and at the Toronto film Festival and promises to be one of the biggest highlights of this 10.Th Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival in the se ction of the films out of competition.
"Jenny Davin (Adèle Haenel), a young doctor, runs a clinic on the outskirts of Liège. One night, hours after the end of his service, Jenny ignores a tap on the bell of the clinic. The next morning, he discovers, through the police, who had touched off a young woman in trouble, later found dead nearby. Anguished by guilt, Jenny uses her character methodical and analytical to try and figure out the identity of the woman and the person responsible for his death."
Une Femme Est Une Femme (A Woman is a Woman) – Retrospective Jean-Luc Godard
One of the first films of Godard and the first film of the director the colors, this is one of the great milestones of the cinema of the Nouvelle Vague. Known for being the "musical without music" is a film whim of Godard which is also as one of the most charismatic and memorable of his career.
"Angela (Anna Karina), a stripteaser in a small bar close to the Porte Saint-Denis, want to have a baby immediately. The refusal of the husband, Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy), which leads to ask for help from a friend of both Alfred Lubitsch".
Underground (once upon A Time A Country) – Retrospective of Emir Kusturica
One of the most iconic movies of Kusturica, winner of the Palme d’or 1995, this epic tells the story of three moments critical to the History of Mankind and we could not be more expectant to be able to (re)see it in a cinema in Lisbon.
"Three periods blacks in the history of Yugoslavia: the First World War, the Cold War, and the Civil War in Yugoslavia. The disintegration of a country and the collapse of an illusion that lasted for decades, symbolised by a man who emerges from his refuge underground".
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