A 16-minute family reunion that'll wreck you harder than a 3-hour epic.
Rodrigo has to return home. He is received by Filipe, the brother who didn’t leave. There are things in that apartment that Rodrigo would prefer to avoid. Like finally having to face his father. During that night, his girlfriend Lena watches everything. In one of the rooms the grandmother is dying.
Acting
Miguel Nunes does decades of guilt in one doorway entrance.
Direction
Costa turns a cramped apartment into emotional quicksand.
Director
Tiago Costa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Portuguese short cinema often uses cramped domestic spaces to explore post-colonial family fractures; Costa follows this tradition with zero sentimentality.
Miguel Nunes and Nuno Gil improvised much of their hostile brotherly tension after only meeting twice before shooting.
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