Portugal (2018)
6KPortugal (2018). 1h 47m
“People looking out of the windows of transportation devices. Passing land- and cityscapes. Cars mirroring on the windows of class buildings. Buildings mirroring on the windows of cars. People sitting and staring at something, rarely at each other. Sometimes they make faces like theyu0026#39;re about to say something and then not. Totally confusing and out of place scenes (like husband coming home being beaten up. Who kicked his ass? The guy in the gym? But the clothes of husband were different in these to continuous scenes.). u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film was as shallow as that one piece of paper the screenplay was written on. There was a plot, but the story was told through silence and meaningless symbolism that all felt repetetive and boring. It seems like the director said to actors to walk and just filmed them and then cut all the material together. The film tried to be deep, but it fell out just pretentious trying to be art. There were couple of moments that felt like now the film starts to going somewhere, but these moments were brief and led to another sequence of empty scenes and finally to dissapointment. The cinematography was beautiful, with some well composed shots and all the actors were great, but it just wasnu0026#39;t enough to carry the movie and keep me interested (one of the very rare occasions where I felt Iu0026#39;m not going to sit through it, but I kept hoping, and the hope died last).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnother movie that tries to tell something when actually it doesnu0026#39;t have nothing to say. The trailer was much more interesting.”
