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MURMURING COAST (A Costa Dos Murmúrios)
Portugal
At the end of the sixties, Evita arrives in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to marry Luis, a mathematics student doing his military service there. Evita oon realized that Luis has changed, and in the turmoil of the war he has tramsformed himself into a pale imitation of his commanding officer, Forza Leal. The men leave on a major military offensive in the north of the country.Evita is left alone and, desperate to understand what has changed Luis, seeks the company of Helena, Forza Leal´s wife. Helena, submissive and humiliated, is a prisioner in her own house where she is fulfiling a promise. And it is she who shows Luis´s darkest side to Evita as she tries to draw her into an ambiguous relationship of destruction and death. Lost in an allien world, Evita becomes tangled in a web of sordi violence, which has neither glory nor honour. The violence of a colonial age drawing to its end. A period of war, loss and guilt. Golden Globe, Golden Globes Portugal, 2005; Film Award, Coimbra Caminhos do Cinema Portugueis, 2005 DIR Margarita Cardoso, Postugal, 2004.
About the Film Director: Margarita Cardoso
Writer: Lídia Jorge (novel) Cedric Basso, Margarita Cardoso
Producer: Alexander Bohr, María Joao Mayer, Joao Ribeiro
Release year: 2004
Genre: Drama
Running time: 122 min
Plot: At the end of the sixties, Evita arrives in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to marry Luis, a mathematics student doing his military service there. Evita oon realized that Luis has changed, and in the turmoil of the war he has tramsformed himself into a pale imitation of his commanding officer, Forza Leal. The men leave on a major military offensive in the north of the country.Evita is left alone and, desperate to understand what has changed Luis, seeks the company of Helena, Forza Leal´s wife. Helena, submissive and humiliated, is a prisioner in her own house where she is fulfiling a promise. And it is she who shows Luis´s darkest side to Evita as she tries to draw her into an ambiguous relationship of destruction and death. Lost in an allien world, Evita becomes tangled in a web of sordi violence, which has neither glory nor honour. The violence of a colonial age drawing to its end. A period of war, loss and guilt.
Main Cast: Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Duarte, Mónica Calle, Adriano Luz, Luis Sarmento, Joao Ricardo, Dinarte Branco.
About the Film Director: Margarita Cardoso
Writer: Lídia Jorge (novel) Cedric Basso, Margarita Cardoso
Producer: Alexander Bohr, María Joao Mayer, Joao Ribeiro
Release year: 2004
Genre: Drama
Running time: 122 min
Plot: At the end of the sixties, Evita arrives in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to marry Luis, a mathematics student doing his military service there. Evita oon realized that Luis has changed, and in the turmoil of the war he has tramsformed himself into a pale imitation of his commanding officer, Forza Leal. The men leave on a major military offensive in the north of the country.Evita is left alone and, desperate to understand what has changed Luis, seeks the company of Helena, Forza Leal´s wife. Helena, submissive and humiliated, is a prisioner in her own house where she is fulfiling a promise. And it is she who shows Luis´s darkest side to Evita as she tries to draw her into an ambiguous relationship of destruction and death. Lost in an allien world, Evita becomes tangled in a web of sordi violence, which has neither glory nor honour. The violence of a colonial age drawing to its end. A period of war, loss and guilt.
Main Cast: Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Duarte, Mónica Calle, Adriano Luz, Luis Sarmento, Joao Ricardo, Dinarte Branco.