Actor Michel Piccoli's masterful performance in Manoel de Oliveira's engaging I'M GOING HOME (2001) may have suggested that the nonagenarian Portuguese director had finally turned his attention to directing his actors, but it was misleading. This intermittently interesting symbolic tour through European history once again places ideas over aesthetics and technique. Lisbon University history professor Rosa Maria (Leonor Silveira) and her 7-year-old daughter, Maria Joana (Filipa de Almeida), plan to spend an upcoming holiday with Rosa Maria's husband, airline pilot Joao, in Bombay. Rather than fly from Portugal to India, Rosa Maria decides to reenact the age-old Portug...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins