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Director: Walter Lima Jr
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From Time Out Film Guide
This reverie-cum-mystery (beautifully shot by Pedro Farkas) concerns the inhabitants of one of Brazil's remote Downed Islands - 'where the days go backwards and forwards like the waves' - populated only by a 60-year-old lighthouse keeper, his jealously guarded daughter Marcela, and a crew of sailors who bring provisions once a month. Unfolding through flashbacks (Marcela is played by three actresses), it's a tale of troubled sexual awakening, repressed passions and mysterious pasts, in which nothing is made explicit. Marcela's disembodied voice is invoked as one sailor reads her journal, conjuring up the story of the mysterious Saulo and 'The Idiot' boy Roberto - but what's truth? what fiction? A mature, distinctively directed work, oneiric and powerful, but also a touch warped and darkly obsessive.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Walter Lima Jr
Producer: Flávio R Tambellini
Cast: Leandra Leal, Lima Duarte, Fernando Torres, Floriano Peixoto, Castrinho, Debora Bloch full cast
Duration: 115 mins
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