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also known as Aquele querido mês de Agosto
Our Beloved Month of August2008
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, fight fires, sing karaoke, hurl themselves from bridges, hunt wild boar, drink beer and make babies. OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST is an intoxicating blend of visuals, sound and music that follows the strange relationship between a father, a daughter and a nephew in a traveling pop band.
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"...neither narrative nor documentary. It's even less a fusion of the two than a vacation from both, or any, categories." - J. Hoberman, the Village Voice
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- Sónia Bandeira - Tânia
- Joaquim Carvalho - Domingos
- Fábio Oliveira - Hélder
- Andreia Santos
- Manuel Soares - Celestino
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cool concept well done
A fine work of anthropology, examining the sustaining rituals and culture of small town Portugal and the stresses that economic hardship and emigration exert.
Movie within a movie. Midsummer's nite dream...
Cinema at its near finest.