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The Invisible Life
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Wikipedia article
'The Invisible Life' is a Portuguese feature-length drama film directed by Vtor Gonalves and produced by the Portuguese production company Rosa Filmes.
The film's world premiere was at the international competition of the 2013 Rome Film Festival.
Plot
The film follows the interior life of Hugo, a middle-aged public servant who lives by night at his workplace, the palace of Terreiro do Pao in Lisbon from where centuries before the Portuguese Empire was governed, nowadays ministries of the Portuguese government. Obsessed with the 8mm footage he discovered at the belongings of Antnio, his recently deceased superior, Hugo recalls the day Antnio told him he was dying. These memories unexpectedly bring back others, including remembrances of the last time Hugo saw Adriana, the last woman he loved, who is nowadays living in another country.
Cast
* Filipe Duarte as Hugo
* Maria Joo Pinho as Adriana
* Joo Perry as Antnio
* Pedro Lamares as Sandro
* Susana Arrais as the nurse
Production
The film marks Vtor Gonalves return to feature filmmaking after a hiatus of more than twenty years following his acclaimed debut with the cult-film 'A Girl In Summer'.
Reception
'The Guardian's Andrew Pulver awarded the film four stars, describing it as "rigorous, elegant study of emotional crisis." Sukhdev Sandhu, writing in 'Sight & Sound', said the film "asks raw, unsettling questions of us all."
References
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