14/03/2013 - The film by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata will be screened at the same time as their short film Alvorada Vermelha

The Last Time I saw Macau [+see also:
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While full of references to Macao, the movie made by Austrian director Josef Von Sternberg and American Nicholas Ray in 1952, The Last Time I Saw Macao takes on the risky challenge of adopting a hybrid form, halfway between documentary and "film noir". The screenplay follows a fictional alter ego of director Guerra de Mata, who returns to Macau, where he spent his childhood, to look for his friend Candy, who has a tendency to join up with the wrong men. What could be a suspense movie ends up by playing around with genres and expectations to become a kind of cinematic essay on a place which has always fascinated filmmakers.

João Pedro Rodrigues has entrusted the Agence Lusa with the film that he and Guerra da Mata will shoot, again in à Macau, at the end of the year: "We are convinced that in Macau, and other places in Asia, there is virtually inexhaustible potential for fiction. We want to be contaminated by such places ".

The Last Time I Saw Macao is a coproduction between Portugal (Blackmaria) and France (Epicentro Films).

(Translated from Spanish)