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IndieLisboa · 2013

IndieLisboa 2013

Observatory

Some of the most important films of the year, namely those by renown authors, never publicly screened in Portugal.

Programme

11 films · 7 reviews

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Before Midnight

Review preview for Before Midnight

A fairytale for old romantics everywhere, who believe that the weapons of friendship and commitment are as vital in the fight for a relationship, as love.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Jesse and Celine consider their lives together after nine years of living together.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater; Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick)

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Death Row (On Death Row)

Review preview for Death Row

Bleak, stripped down and haunting.

Owen Van Spall · 5 out of 5
Series of portraits of inmates on Death Row.

(Country: USA / UK / Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Werner Herzog)

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Frances Ha

Review preview for Frances Ha

You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
Lightning-in-a-bottle, Noah Baumbach’s love poem to his star and co-writer Greta Gerwig recalls Godard’s early celebrations of Anna Karina, but, as a New York movie, it’s beautiful in a brand new way.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig; Stars: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Patrick Heusinger, Teddy Cañez, Hannah Dunne, Grace Gummer, William Todd Levinson, Marina Squerciati, Finnerty Steeves)

Full review See: 2012 New York Film Festival - diary two

Museum Hours

Review preview for Museum Hours

This goes on for more than two hours and will bore some viewers to death. Others, though, will find this quiet, complex film a fascinating piece of art in itself.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A museum attendant shows a Canadian visitor the sights of Vienna and in the process falls in love with it all over again.

(Country: Austria, US; Year: 2012; Director: Jem Cohen; Writer: Jem Cohen; Stars: Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits)

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Shirley - Visions of Reality

13 Edward Hopper paintings come to life.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2013; Director: Gustav Deutsch; Stars: Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach)

Sightseers

Review preview for Sightseers

If Malick's lands were bad, then Wheatley's are sad, as small injustices, petty jealousies and perceived slights lead to cold blooded murder and childish revenge.

Neil Mitchell · 4 out of 5
A young couple on a caravan holiday find themselves going on a killing spree.

(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Alice Jump; Stars: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover)

Full review See: Steve Oram, Ben Wheatley, Alice Lowe interview about Sightseers

Spring Breakers

Review preview for Spring Breakers

While there is much to admire about Spring Breakers in terms of visual aesthetic and directorial style, those aspects are undermined by a run of the mill narrative not nearly as subversive as it appears to want to be.

Neil Mitchell · 3 out of 5
Four college students form an unlikely allegiance with a drug dealer.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Harmony Korine; Writer: Harmony Korine; Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Heather Morris, James Franco, Rachel Korine)

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That's Love (É o Amor)

The film works as a long version of Canijo’s short film Obligation and focuses on the theme of women living in Caxinas, a fishing village in Vila do Conde.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2013; Director: João Canijo; Stars: Francisquinho, Anabela Moreira, Sónia Nunes, Cassilda Pontes, Paula Saraiva, Francisco Torrão)

Thy Womb (Sinapupunan)

An infertile midwife and her husband find a surrogate mother.

(Country: Philippines; Year: 2012; Director: Brillante Mendoza; Writer: Henry Burgos; Stars: Nora Aunor, Bembol Roco, Lovi Poe, Mercedes Cabral, Glenda Kennedy)

You, Me And Us (Un enfant de toi)

A girl thinks her divorced parents may be secretly seeing one another.

(Year: 2012; Director: Jacques Doillon; Writer: Jacques Doillon; Stars: Lou Doillon, Samuel Benchetrit, Malik Zidi)