A Look at the Portuguese World

 

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Lisbon story

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It is apparently a sequel to the movie "the state of things" that took place in Sintra.

Wim Wenders is a poet of the images. Of the cities that is the space that he best likes to shoot and it shows up in this trip thru a Portuguese city, Lisbon. It is also a journey through the senses, is almost needless to look at, if we close our eyes, we hear the pulse of the city and recognize its corner, the walls, and the other side of the doors. It is also an ode to music, Madredeus who renovated Portuguese traditional music and in this feature film they are also part of this message of the "Portugality" present throughout the film, because Lisbon is not only the capital of Portugal, is above all the deepest essence of what is to be Portuguese. The images are a complement of this portrait of a metropolis facing fore to a river that looks like the sea. It is above all a tribute to cinema, which I enjoyed very much. If I did not know who the director is, I probably will say he was Portuguese. Wenders captured well the Lusitanian soul that he capture on street corners, in taverns, in Pessoa, in the most hidden places, who humbly tells its story without a great howls and apparent simplicity, more is impossible. It is a journey through a sound engineer, Philip Winter, starring the excellent Rüdiger Vloger, Mr. Winter, as children call him who also walks you through the city. There is a moment of great tenderness with director Antonio de Oliveira, who brings back to us the origins of cinema, Chaplin, the master. This is pure cinema, the intimate look of a director. Good movie.

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