A wedding day where nobody's happy and Lisbon's crumbling—romance is dead, long live the 90s!
The film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.
Cinematography
Lisbon as crumbling character, not just backdrop
Direction
Sapinho's patient observation of ordinary despair
Acting
Bolito and Delgado's brittle, believable tension
Director
Joaquim Sapinho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Portugal's EU integration era, the crumbling Lisbon architecture mirrors national identity anxiety.
The 'ordinary day' premise was radical for 1996 Portuguese cinema—rejecting the melodramatic tradition of wedding films entirely.
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