Cinema
One Hundred Times Lost
Perdido por Cem
António-Pedro Vasconcelos · 1973
Synopsis
Artur, a boy from the provinces, is returning from holiday in Lisbon. On the road, he is picked up in a car by Rui, a young man from advertising, who introduces him to the world of radio and publicity without opening any real horizon for him. He meets Joana, who has also come from the provinces, and for whom he conceives an obsessive passion, without ever knowing what she feels.
Context
The film, shot in 1972 and released on 9 April 1973, was produced by the cooperative of the filmmakers of the Novo Cinema, which the Gulbenkian Foundation financed; the future producer Paulo Branco was an assistant on it. Its author had seen in Paris the emergence of the young French cinema, and the film bears its mark. It is regarded as emblematic of an era, through the portrait of a young man whose sadness is as romantic as it is political.
Who it is for
A feature film in Portuguese, marked by the manner of the French New Wave; the story follows a character with no ties and no horizon.
Prizes and reception
Its author's first feature film, and one of the representative titles of the second generation of the Novo Cinema.
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