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This is the story of a writer who does not write. Alberto, cut off from the rest of the world, mistakes reality for fiction and vice versa. The story he’s writing, or imagines to write (the story of a sailorman that, one day, in a foreign harbor, meets a girl who he then loses track of), is entangled with his own personal history and life. A film on impossible connections.
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Cast:
José Mário Branco, Manuela de Freitas, Miguel Gonçalves -
Original Title:
O Som da Terra a Tremer -
Country:
Portugal -
Year:
1990 - 93 min PT
Director
Rita Azevedo Gomes
Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1952, Rita Azevedo Gomes studied Fine Arts before working in film and theatre. Besides her endeavors as a filmmaker, she’s also a film programmer and curator at Cinemateca Portuguesa. Over the years, she has taken part in several projects spanning across theatre, opera, cinema and the visual arts, of which her graphic work for cinema is particularly striking. She has collaborated with important figures within Portuguese cinema, such as João Bénard da Costa, Luís Noronha da Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Valeria Sarmiento, among others. Having directed her first feature, O Som da Terra a Tremer, in 1990, she subsequently directed several short and feature films that earned her international recognition. The Portuguese Woman (2018) is her latest film.
