After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mourned by his boyfriend Rui.
Acting
Ana Cristina Oliveira's unhinged, feral commitment.
Direction
Rodrigues turns Lisbon into a fever dream of neon and grief.
Cinematography
Supermarket fluorescence never looked so erotically wrong.
Director
João Pedro Rodrigues
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'New Portuguese Cinema' movement that queer'd national identity after Salazar's dictatorship. Rodrigues specifically wanted to explode the 'tragic gay death' trope by making a straight woman hijack it.
The supermarket dance scene was improvised after Oliveira got genuinely drunk on set. Rodrigues kept rolling.
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