A poet's chaotic legacy set to music—this film dreams in verse and screams in structure.
Organized like a dream, structured like a musical and with texts, both spoken and sung, that lead us to unexpected, chaotic and exciting situations, which try to grasp part of what the unattainable Alexandre O'Neill left us.
Direction
Botelho's structural daring—like Fellini met a Portuguese lit major.
Writing
O'Neill's own verses, weaponized into cinematic language.
Score
Sung-spoken dialogue that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Director
João Botelho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alexandre O'Neill was a founder of Portuguese Surrealism and notorious literary provocateur—this film's chaos is actually quite faithful.
The title translates to 'A Film Shaped Like This'—Botelho is literally showing you the form cannot contain its subject.
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