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30/04/2009 Drama, Romance 1h 4m
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Overview

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman.

  1. Manoel de Oliveira

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Ricardo Trêpa

    Macário

  2. Catarina Wallenstein

    Luísa

  3. Júlia Buisel

    Dona Vilaça

  4. Leonor Silveira

    Woman on Train

  5. Filipe Vargas

    Friend

  6. Diogo Dória

    Uncle Francisco

  7. Luís Miguel Cintra

  8. Glória de Matos

    D. Sande

  9. Rogério Samora

    Chapéu de Palha

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Reviews

A review by Filipe Manuel Neto
Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on 2022-11-26
**Another academic and erudite Portuguese film… yet more tolerable than many others I've seen.**

Despite considering myself a patriot, I recognize that Portuguese cinema is not particularly good when compared to Spanish, French, Italian or British cinema. We simply don't have the capital and people to make movies as good as theirs. As I've said in other reviews I've written, Portuguese cinema ends up focusing on two distinct fields: bad taste comedies with strong popular appeal, and academic, erudite and not infrequently unpalatable films that (almost) never leave the "festival circuit".
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Status
Released

Original Language
Portuguese

Budget
$2,500,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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