AQUELE QUERIDO MÊS DE AGOSTO
OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST
From one song to the next, ball after ball and night after night, from one village to another and one landscape after another - it is first of all in such a way that the characters and their life stories come to us. Is it a documentary morphing into a work of fiction, then? In a way, it is - but in a swinging-low kind of way. It takes the vaguely idle time of a month of August in Arganil, a poor and sparsely populated region known as «the heart of Portugal». Most importantly, it also takes the time to wait for the slow budding of a fantastic dimension of everyday life. This organic construction is true to the way in which Miguel Gomes embarked on this second feature film of his. While a slightly sardonic love threesome - a father, his daughter and her cousin - made the initial plot, these characters lacked bodies. Gomes chose to look for embodiments on the spot. He filmed the landscapes for so long in his quest for actors that he found other stories in the meantime - minute legends meshing together and gradually taking on the weight of plots in their own right. (Jean-Pierre Rehm, Francisco Ferreira)
- Sónia Bandeira - Tânia
- Fábio Oliveira - Hélder
- Joaquim Carvalho - Domingos
- Andreia Santos - Lena
- Armando Nunes - Gomes
- Manuel Soares - Celestino
- Emmanuelle Fèvre - Fátima
- Diogo Encarnação - Eric
- Telmo Churro
- Miguel Gomes
- Mariana Ricardo
- Rui Poças
- Vasco Pimentel
- Telmo Churro
- Miguel Gomes
- Bruno Duarte
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