Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets a man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and he becomes obsessed with the stranger until loneliness and unfulfilled desire propel him finally into a dark and dangerous animalistic state.
Direction
Rodrigues turns Lisbon into a neon-lit fever dream.
Cinematography
Every frame looks stolen from someone's forbidden photo album.
Acting
Meneses communicates entire novels through jaw tension.
Director
João Pedro Rodrigues
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ricardo Meneses was a non-professional actor discovered working at a gas station; Rodrigues cast him for his 'physical presence.'
This was Portugal's entry for queer cinema on the international stage, predating the country's same-sex marriage legalization by a decade.
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