Alice at home
by Vitor Pinto
Following the French première last week, it is time for the Portuguese theatres to host Alice [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Marco Martins
interview: Nuno Lopes
film profile], the first feature film by Marco Martins, to which Cineuropa dedicated a Film Focus. The film is the only European title to open this week; all the others are American productions.
Madragoa, Atalanta and Medeia, the trio of companies run by Paulo Branco are behind the production, local distribution and exhibition of this first work, which won the Jeunes Regards Award at the last Cannes Film Festival. Distributed in France with 10 prints, the film will be shown for now in five national screens: four of them in Lisbon and a fifth one in Porto.
Starring Nuno Lopes, the film tells the daily routine of a father, whose daughter, Alice, who has been missing for 193 days. "I wanted to film absence, I wanted to film a man isolated in his quest, in his anguish and in his emptiness", confessed Marco Martins to Cineuropa. A story blending loneliness and obsession in every shot, a film portraying Lisbon as an abstract place, which hopes to contribute to the reconciliation of the Portuguese public with its cinema.
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