Meanwhile

Entretanto

Portugal

1999

25 Min

Color

1.85:1

Portuguese

Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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PROD João Figueiras, Sandro Aguilar

CAST Mariana Ricardo, Nuno Oliveira, André Delphim, Joana de Sá, Gonçalo Félix

Parents and teachers are gone. Meanwhile, a girl and two boys became a love trio. Rui, Nuno and Rita cross three different spaces and time in a way to get alone. A rugby match, a swimming-pool party, the beach. An instable balance – the trio is too close to a triangle. Meanwhile it’s the time of spellbound. Rui loves Rita, Nuno or just the fun of it? Nuno loves Rita and depends on Rui? Rita is the passive leader of the game. Does she love anyone?

Director

Miguel Gomes

Miguel Gomes (b. 1972) began first as a film critic before directing a series of refreshingly eccentric short films that revealed his innate talents as a sensual visual stylist interested in an intensely image based narrative in which music plays an equal role to dialogue. Gomes’ early “musical comedies” offer important keys to his feature films by revealing the important inspiration of both musical cinema and the silent film to his uniquely playful and imaginative approach to narrative. The unique energy and puckish charm of Gomes’ little known debut, the Alice in Wonderland-meets-Jacque Rivette narrative puzzle, The Face That You Deserve, took the ludic tendencies of his cinema to a furthest extreme. The festival favorite My Beloved Month of August turned a new and important direction by responding to the “post-documentary” mode of innovative and unclassifiable non-fiction cinema championed by Costa and defined earlier by pioneering works such as Oliveira’s Rite of Spring (1963… read more

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Christianleon

5Sep12

Brillante historia de una chica que explora posibilidades de identidad y sexualidad antes del establecimiento de los roles establecidos de la sociedad adulta.

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msmichel

21Aug12

OK short from portuguese director Gomes concerning a tomboyish girl in the midst of a teenage love triangle. Just a glimpse, just a hint of the ennui and misplaced feelings of being a teen in the end saying nothing at all. Nice to hear a Dave Davies song though.

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