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Bookmark this pageThe 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
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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