Your best friend steals your girl. Two woodland demons show up with therapy.
The relationship between António and Ruth ends unexpectedly when Ruth decides to live with Pedro, António's best friend. António doesn't fight back and lets himself drown. From the woods come Violeta and Gaspar, two strange beings, a mixture of fairies, demons and guardian angels, who help António overcome his depression. With the thunders the two characters return to their domains. And life goes on.
Acting
Miguel Guilherme's devastating stillness as drowning man.
Direction
Mozos blends kitchen-sink realism with fairy-tale intrusion.
Costume
Violeta and Gaspar's uncanny otherworldly presence.
Director
Manuel Mozos
Miguel Guilherme
António
José Wallenstein
Pedro
Raquel Dias
Rosa
Elsa Valentim
Rute Vargas
João Salaviza
Gaspar as a Child
João Perry
Vasco Vargas
Isabel de Castro
Palmira
José Mora Ramos
Cab Driver
Gracinda Nave
Mariana
Sofia Leite
Luísa
Gustavo Sumpta
Man in Disco
Miguel Borges
Man in Disco
Mário Bomba
Jorge Silva
Francisco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Portugal's late-90s 'Cinema Novo' movement, using magical realism to process national melancholy.
Director Mozos cast theater veteran Miguel Guilherme after seeing his physical stillness in a Beckett production.
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