A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise they’re getting lonely. Hellish summer ends and we’re on a little fishing village, river-side, in Lisbon’s south bank: people make life-changing decisions.
Cinematography
Golden-hour river light that makes decay look gorgeous.
Acting
Beatriz Batarda's silences speak entire novels.
Direction
Morais lets time itself become the antagonist.
Director
José Álvaro Morais
Beatriz Batarda
Maria João
Marcello Urgeghe
Gabriel Penha
Ricardo Aibéo
Zé Maria
Luis Miguel Cintra
Dr. João José
Isabel Ruth
Conceição
Paula Guedes
Maria Inácia
Asunción Balaguer
Benedita
Fernando Heitor
Padre Paulo
Afonso Melo
Afonso
Lúcia Sigalho
Adelina
Rita Durão
girl on the road
Rita Loureiro
Leninha
Francisco Rabal
Tio Nini
Luís Esparteiro
Amaral
Nuno Lopes
António
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Barreiro, an industrial Lisbon suburb rarely romanticized on screen—Morais grew up here.
Morais died in 2004; this was his penultimate film, and critics now read it as unintentionally autobiographical.
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