Trails

For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glisteningly sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro’s mid-career masterpiece Silvestre.
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For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glisteningly sharp political edge, Paths traces a pattern of repressive authority across Portuguese history while also pointing, with cautious optimism, towards the steady presence of youthful resistance. With its stunning choreography of landscape and use of a poetic, associative structure to evoke the longue durée of mythical time, Paths anticipates Monteiro’s mid-career masterpiece Silvestre. Trails featuring Carmen Duarte and Manuela de Freitas is not currently available to stream, rent, or buy but you can add it to your want to see list for updates. It's a drama movie.
Director
João César Monteiro
Branca-Flor
Carmen Duarte
Atena
Manuela de Freitas
The Devil
Virgilio Branco
The Father
Luís de Sousa Costa
The Storyteller
Francisco Domingues
The Girl / The Devil's Woman
Margarida Gil
The Young Creature of the Elms and Waters
Sílvia Gomes Ferreira
The Lord of the Lands
João Guedes
The Wanderer / The Shepherd
António Mendes
The 1st Daughter of the Devil
Leonor Seixas
The 2nd Daughter of the Devil
Myriam
The Woman Who Grinds the Earth
Adília Martins
The Woman Covering the Child
Ifigenia de Carvalho
Coryphaeus
Minervina Chapanito
Kid Bathing
Pedro Gomes Ferreira
The Lord of the Lands' Wife
Madalena Barbosa
The Eldest Son of the Lord of the Lands
Antônio Eugênio Matos
The Youngest Daughter of the Lord of the Lands
Alexandra Barbosa
The Charioteer
Miguel João Ravasqueira
The Pastor of the Malta House
Jose Antonio Candeeira
Producer
Henrique Espírito Santo
Writer
Carlos de Oliveira
Writer
Carlos D'Oliveira
Writer
José Gomes Ferreira
Writer
Maria Velho da Costa

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