Rita Figueiredo

À la mort de son époux, Laura s’installe avec ses enfants et ses deux belles-sœurs dans sa maison du bord de mer. Lors d’une promenade sur la plage, Laura rencontre un réfugié blessé qu’elle recueille chez elle. Mais le nouvel arrivant va perturber la sérénité de leur séjour.

Years before she saw a man being swallowed by a wave, inside a swimming pool. With this event, time ceased to be linear, and in a split second her family disappeared, leaving only behind the traces of their presence. Through the window´s reflex she realises her face has changed - the face is longer and the hair; she has memories inside her head, that she doesn´t recognize. In another time, she returns to that place to try to confirm her memory.

Years before she saw a man being swallowed by a wave, inside a swimming pool. With this event, time ceased to be linear, and in a split second her family disappeared, leaving only behind the traces of their presence. Through the window´s reflex she realises her face has changed - the face is longer and the hair; she has memories inside her head, that she doesn´t recognize. In another time, she returns to that place to try to confirm her memory.

‘The Great Attractor’ is a film that derives from the myth of Icarus to explore the relationship between humans, their planet, its star, and their inherent destruction. Divided in three movements, the film brings together moving images that span from the 19th to the 21st century, secretly speaking about the relationship of cinema with light and the movement of human and celestial bodies.

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?