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Trails

Trails (Veredas)

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  • Portugal
  • 1978
  • · 120m

Director João César Monteiro
Cast Carmen Duarte, Manuela de Freitas, Virgilio Branco, Luís de Sousa Costa, Francisco Domingues, Margarida Gil, Sílvia Gomes Ferreira, João Guedes, António Mendes, João César Monteiro
Genre Drama, Fantasy

For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glistening sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro's mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.

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