Vasco Sequeira

Le cinéaste Friedrich Monroe a des problèmes pour finir un film muet en noir et blanc sur Lisbonne. Il appelle son ami, l'ingénieur du son Phillip Winter, à l'aide. Quand Winter arrive quelques semaines plus tard à Lisbonne, Monroe a disparu et laissé le film inachevé. Fasciné par la ville et la chanteuse portugaise Teresa, Winter décide de rester et commence à enregistrer le son du film. Dans le même temps Monroe navigue à travers la ville avec un caméscope et essaye de capturer des images invisibles. Plus tard, les deux hommes se rencontrent et Winter convainc Monroe de terminer le film.

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Lisbonne, 1989. Jean De Dieu est un quinquagénaire qui languit dans une vieille pension de famille. Maladif, épicurien et obsédé par les femmes, il trompe l’ennui de sa misérable vie en observant à la dérobée la fille de sa logeuse.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.

A picture of daily life punctuated by silence. In a village in the north, the daily routine of three families. Glimpses of Isabel, her eyes turned towards the future; for the others, living is the only meaning of life. The camera freezes moments of life through the movement of things in time, values and silence. - Cinéma du Réel

This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi