Rosa de areia

Everything is a miracle. The existence and indeed persistence of humanity in spite of all the cultural, spiritual, ethnographical and ontological trauma it has suffered, not to mention the physical, tangible violence that persists right along with it—can it be called…

Jerry

Everything and nothing can be said about this film. One could write a book on it by only telling lies and they would all be true. Mythology imploded as pure energy.

Diogo Serafim

Pirateiros de todos os países (em particular os de Portugal, já que ainda não dá para ter certeza de que os filmes serão disponibilizados online no site da RTP Play), uni-vos! Por sinal, totalmente em boa hora, junto com as exibições do Cottafavi no Anthology (Rosa de…

Bruno Andrade

waiting atop the mountain in sagely repose. the inability to ever submerge yourself inside that beloved of your meanings, your thoughts and actions always dancing on the surface of things, that vaporous and intoxicating stream that departs the spirit, now too full to do…

comrade_yui

Murderers are easy enough to understand. But to hold death, the whole of death, even before life is fairly begun - to contain it gently and without complaint - that defies understanding. - Rainer Maria Rilke As if the waves that opened Moonfleet continued pulsing and…

Avalyn Wu

New 4K restoration Spent a lot of time ruminating what I had witnessed here, and came to the conclusion that it might be Reis and Cordeiro's best film. Being their final film, it feels like the perfect culmination of their worldview on the screen, especially when you're…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

Purgatorio. No film requires our own death to understand it more. At death’s threshold, where movement stops inducing form, the hanging point of life, we are blessed to grasp life by an understanding of the void in and outside it; “an immense extent in all directions, but…

Logan Thompson

ROSA DE AREIA, António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, 1989, por João Bénard da Costa. O crepúsculo inicial ou a aurora final Um filme Le temps s’en va, le temps s’en va, ma Dame; Las! Le temps non, mais nous nous en allons Pierre de Ronsard Em Berlim,…

Foco - Revista de Cinema

Like Budd Boetticher says, shoot around the rocks.

devin