Cláudia Teixeira

João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute. Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding world, however, does not comply with his decaying vision of lust and decay as a way of achieving his purpose.

The film, based on the novel by Anna Maria Ortese, narrates the adventures of a rich, dreamy Italian Count, Aleardo, who, while traveling on a sail boat ends up on the remote island of Ocana, off the Portuguese coast. Here, three impoverished Portuguese aristocrats live in dire poverty, cut off from the world and thrown back to the nineteenth century. (imdb)

Small film integrated in a series of 3 shortfilms about the adventures of the good old João de Deus. (Letterboxd)