Ohjaus:
João Pedro RodriguesKuvaus:
Rui PoçasNäyttelijät:
Anabela Moreira, Margarida Vila-Nova, Teresa Madruga, Raquel Rocha Vieira, Ana Bustorff, Cláudia Jardim, Mauro Costa, André CabralJuonikuvaukset(1)
The year is 2069 and the Kingdom of Portugal is in danger of losing its ruler. His Majesty Alfredo is on his deathbed, with a royal grandson running around preoccupied by a tiny model of a fire truck. The frail Alfredo is therefore lulled by the colourful memories of his youth and his boundless imagination. He recalls the time when, as a young prince, he decided to leave the ritzy family manor, filled with lavish colonial heritage, and enter the real world. A time when he watched massive fires burn through Portuguese forests and, overcome by environmental grief, he decided to take the reins into his own hands - and became a volunteer firefighter. And of a time when he found not only freedom and satisfaction in the brigade, but also sensual dancing, singing, love and burning attraction. (Mezipatra Queer Film Festival)
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It takes a lot of courage to call this film a musical. Throughout, the main character sings once in the woods without music and then dances to music without words in a firehouse. Casting non-dancing firemen who are then supposed to play and dance to the music makes for one hell of a spectacle - perhaps the worst dance performance in cinema history. The whole film is shallow, basically moving nothing forward except the relationship between the firefighters. The flashforward or flashback to the future is not related to the whole film at all, it is a kind of embellishment of the film that doesn't work and makes no dramatic sense. The director of the film, João Pedro Rodrigues, should rather consider becoming an assistant director again...
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