Twist of Fate
Os Sorrisos do Destino
Portugal
2009
Color
Portuguese
Synopsis
At 55 years of age, Carlos is a famous journalist. His wife, Ada, is the complete opposite of her husband: she is a woman with an active social life; and is happy and seductive.
One day Carlos accidentally reads a text message on Ada’s cellular phone. His world is changed before his very eyes when he discovers that his wife is seeing another man. With the help of a friend, he discovers her universe of virtual lovers and electronic adultery…
Director
Fernando Lopes
He surges in his generation, of budding directors rising up through the so-called “cine-club” movement, and acquires his first technical knowledge by working in television.
He graduated from the London Film School, which he attended in 1959-60, with a scholarship from the National Cinema Fund. After his return to Portugal, he pens Belarmino (1964), a film about the life of the pugilist Belarmino Fragoso, a film that is considered one of the key works from the Portuguese New Cinema movement, along with Dom Roberto by Ernesto de Sousa, and Os Verdes Anos (The Green Years) by Paulo Rocha.
In 1965, he spends a training period in Hollywood, where he remains for three months. Upon returning, he films A Bumblebee in the Rain (1971), adapted from the novel by Carlos de Oliveira and starring Laura Soveral; and along with O Delfim (2002), the two films are considered his greatest works. In 2006, he directs two films: 98 Octanes read more
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