Rita Azevedo Gomes

Roberto is one of those men to whom the simulation has become the greatest art. A dandy! some will say. A libertine! others will tell. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. Until one evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. (C.R.I.M.)

Loosely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who didn't write anything and who blows at night the breath of frozen air. These words come from a poem by Carlos Queiroz. Although they are not quoted within the film, they define its tone. (FilmAffinity)

An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their families, friends and the land where they live. The issue is time. The time they don't actually have (studies, families, distant houses) and the time of their own life. (Letterboxd)

His home is war. Her home is Portugal. Yet the young, newly married wife of Lord von Ketten is determined to make her husband's family abode, an inhospitable castle on a cliff in northern Italy, into her home.

The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through their poetry and their letters, the film builds a dialogue between longing and belonging, the "desire to fill years of distance with hours of conversation". At the same time, it establishes a correspondence with our own lives fictionalized under the ties and entanglements that hold us together.

Two couples meet and are transported to a local legend (artsy adaptation).

A series of encounters between two ex-lovers who still are very fond of each other. - IMDb

In this lyrical elegy lamenting the death of Madeleine, her husband, a theater actor, relives his very first memories of her.

Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical representation. The writer is Jean-Louis Schefer, and this tale encapsulates his life’s mission.

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century life.