Fire of Wind

impressionistic, introverted visual poem with a social heart. pedro costa certified. director Marta Mateus was a joy to watch getting lost within the Q&A several times.

shookone

Wonderful greens and browns. Great eye and also use of sound. A fiction located in the meeting of bodies and landscape. I’m not sure it is completely in control of the violence and mystifications involved in it, but a very impressive feature.

Filipe Furtado

Understands where the foundations of a revolution against an authoritarian regime can start up - and I feel like the simplicity of how Fire of Wind unfolds, especially with the fact that most of the film never really seems to leave the vineyard where the harvest is taking…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

We all know and love the landscape film. But what if there was a film where a rampaging bull forced the characters to take shelter up in the trees for the majority of the runtime? Introducing: the tree-scape film. Found this very engrossing. Hits a bit of that…

Gerry

Ah, the first great film of the festival! I wonder what Tim Blake Nelson thought of it…

Graham L. Carter

From the introduction to my interview with Marta Mateus in Pardo, the Locarno Film Festival's printed daily magazine (I'm editor-in-chief and re-shaped the whole thing with a great new team this year): "One of the most elemental premieres in Locarno this year: Fogo do…

Christopher Small

oneiric, quiet, meditative, serene. seems like some telling of memories and portuguese history with a strong emphasis on class struggle. sonically and visually beautiful but i can't deny that i fell asleep multiple times lol. eternal shoutouts to mdff for programming…

kev

Wouldn’t recommend watching this in a dark quiet room when you’ve only slept 3 hours the night before

lein_bruv

Ese toro sí que sabe actuar

jacobii