Slant Magazine by Jaime N. Christley
The essayistic remembrances provide the filmmakers with a brilliant exit strategy when the noir business has nowhere to go but in circles.
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Portugal, France, Macao · 2012
1h 25m
Director João Rui Guerra da Mata
Starring Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria João Guerra da Mata
Genre Documentary, Thriller
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It's been ages since Guerra da Mata saw his old friend, Candy, who started a new life in Macao. But all that will change when Candy gets mixed up with the wrong men and contacts da Mata to avoid a life-threatening situation. A shape-shifting ode to one of the world's most alluring and exoticized cities.
Slant Magazine by Jaime N. Christley
The essayistic remembrances provide the filmmakers with a brilliant exit strategy when the noir business has nowhere to go but in circles.
The effort is commendable and the complicated emotions of the piece (for a place and a people) come through loud and clear. To paraphrase the great Ms. Russell, the movie has the power to make you laugh and the power to break your heart in half.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
A sly, amusing if underconceptulized and needlessly elliptical inquiry into truth, memory and appearances.
As a ruminative travelogue-cum-dissertation, Rodrigues and Guerra Da Mata’s film is often haunting, and its portentous and mournful atmospherics ultimately help compensate for the nagging impression that it’s a work almost too personal for an outside viewer to fully penetrate.
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