It's a film noir of 1984 from director António Pedro Vasconcelos.
The "dead's place" was one of the biggest commercial successes of Portuguese cinema, this is mainly the plot almost in a tone of foretold tragedy, that involves a journalist looking for answers over an alleged suicide and that in the course of his investigation he gets involved just with a true femme fatale, Anna, played by the beautiful Ana Zanatti. You want to know what I liked most of this movie? The popular, the newspaper where he works, Álvaro Serpa, the actor Pedro Oliveira, was delicious to revise the telex machines receiving the news from all corners of the world, the telephone service girl transferring calls, the archivists who collected and archive valuable information about the various personalities and key events of the society of the time, the phones constantly ringing and the famous typewriters, the most striking in this scenario is the deafening noise of the work environment, we almost cease to believe they could worked and the it is incredible to see the amount of people that was needed to bring to life a daily newspaper. Another great scene that deserves my highlight is the train, the rocking of the coach sets the tone of the narrative, a hallucinatory trip at high speed. António Pedro Vasconcelos films a race Lisbon in the eighties in a competent manner, the only aspect where the film fails is that the story itself, the alleged crime fades to the end without any major surprises that leaves us with more questions than answers. However, it is always worth reviewing this "the dead's place". Good cinema.
