A party, a bridge, and a stranger who wants to fall — what happens next isn't what you'd expect.
On a day like any other, a woman leaves work and heads to a party in the outskirts of Lisbon. On her way there she sees a man ready to jump off a bridge. She stops the car and approaches the man, trying to save him.
Acting
Rita Loureiro's unraveling restraint in every frame.
Cinematography
Lisbon at night — beautiful, indifferent, complicit.
Direction
Alves do Ó refuses to let you feel righteous.
Director
Vicente Alves do Ó
Rita Loureiro
Simone Avelar
Dalila Carmo
Leonor
Ivo Canelas
Mário
Marcello Urgeghe
David Abecassis
Ana Moreira
Adelaide
Filipe Vargas
Joaquim
João Reis
Eduardo Avelar
Carmen Santos
Raquel Abecassis
Maya Booth
Funcionária Editora
Rui Morisson
Carlos Oliveira
(Scenes Deleted)
Diogo Faria
Amante de David (Scenes Deleted)
Margarida André
Inspectora 1
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alves do Ó is part of Portugal's 'New Cinema' movement, using Lisbon's nocturnal spaces to explore moral fracture in a country still processing economic collapse.
The film deliberately withholds genre cues — it teases thriller, romance, even horror, but ultimately refuses all three, leaving viewers unmoored in Simone's uncertainty.
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