Less surreal but just as bizarre as Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues feature debut, O FANTASMA (2000), this tale of obsession and loss revolves around a man descending into suicidal despair after losing his lover and woman unhinged by her desire for a child. Shortly after college student Pedro (Joao Carreira) and bartender Rui (Nuno Gil) celebrate their one-year anniversary with identical commitment rings inscribed "two drifters," Pedro dies in a car crash. Elsewhere in Lisbon, supermarket clerk Odete (model Ana Cristina de Oliveira) throws out her boyfriend, Alberto (Carloto Cotto), when he resists her increasingly strident demands that he make her pregnant....
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
101 mins