Dinner party from hell while the city burns outside. Pass the wine?
As a result of the pandemic and the economic crisis, there is a widespread revolt in the main cities of the country and Paulo and Cristina, an upper-middle-class couple with a newborn child, only do not join the popular indignation because they agreed, that same night, to organize a dinner for two friends: João, going through a divorce process that plunges him into a strange depression; and Raquel, Cristina's childhood friend who has spent the last few years crossing the planet on a journey of self-discovery. It's a night where, while the world changes outside, people reveal themselves inside, in this apartment where the confrontation between the real and the virtual reveals the most terrible truths.
Acting
Four people destroying each other with polite smiles.
Direction
Single-location tension that suffocates elegantly.
Director
Tiago R. Santos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during actual COVID-19 lockdowns in Lisbon, using the real empty streets as production value the pandemic provided for free.
The dinner party structure deliberately mirrors Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel—bourgeois prisoners of their own making, except here the door is open and they still won't leave.
PT
