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Reviews
1ª Vez 16 mm (2008)
The worst thing ever recorded on film.
This was the most frightening experience ever inside a movie theater! ANY person knows that, to make a movie, you need to have a story. That was not what I've seen in this piece of terribleness. I was shown, in its premiere, the most stupid, lame, poor and ridiculous demonstration of the total lack of minimal basis needed to storytelling. There weren't even aesthetic notions, sound knowledge, timing, cast directing, planning, general coherence... These were the worst 2 hours spent on my whole life. This director, Rui Goulard, hasn't a slight of genius, or vision or even common sense. He should never be given money again to direct whatever. Because there are lots of Portuguese young people who have talent and don't have the money. And because he keeps on being allowed to make movies - i just can't figure out why, because his films don't even have commercial value, and aren't even exhibited on regular sessions - but it's this continued propagation of crap-producing that allows him, based on his almost anonymous experience, to contact good international actors that he can't even work with. This gives him, without an exchange, the possibility to ask assured subsidiary help from here and there. Just do a favor to Portuguese cinematography legacy - stop doing whatever you think you're doing. my rate is actually 0/10
O Fascínio (2003)
Half the potential was lost.
Not fascinating at all. Lame story, terrible direction. The main character Lino (Vítor Norte) is presented as a cold, pretentious clerk, who suddenly receives a country property as an heritage and immediately gets excited because his money problems are solved. Once there, he acts mystic, inserted in a impetuous voyage through the family past, the country's history and myths told by everyone who seems to face his way. Every layer of this regression is very confusing, and I didn't understand which details explained that spirit haunting. The reason I say the potential was lost : the excess that leads this film. Excess of actors, excess of past stories, excess of dialog, excess of sound tracks, excess of surreal characters with no further approach than a slight meaningless appearance (the medium lady, the travesty, the mysterious girl on the farm...) This character, played by the beautiful actress Ana Moreira, seems to hold a secret. But there's not much information in her, just a sudden and unexplainable feeling for Lino. And it's not interesting to see her dark beauty, crossing the night involved in a mysterious phantasmagoric figure ending up as the young little summerier sailboat friend, who could be just any other young woman. The prostitute is another character who was not solved: what does the resemblance mean? Lots of questions left in in this film. In spite of it, has, at some points, a cinematography that holds attention. But nothing is quite "fascinating" here.