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The Mutants (1998)

Director: Teresa Villaverde

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From Time Out Film Guide

More taciturn tales of alienation, woe and suffering, this time focused on the shelters of Lisbon's homeless young. Like Pedro Costa's Ossos, it's a slow, elliptical and slightly pretentious affair. Right from the long, opening extreme close-up of hair blowing in the wind, Villaverde repeatedly pushes both imagery and sound to the brink of abstraction - an otherwise gratuitous scene in a fairground becomes a truly extraordinary coup de cinéma. Fascinating and for the most part strangely beautiful.

Author: GA 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Teresa Villaverde

Producer: Jacques Bidou

Cast: Alexandre Pinto, Nelson Varela, Ana Moreira, Paulo Pereira, Teresa Roby, Helder Tavares full cast

Duration: 113 mins


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