The best Gonçalo Amorim’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Gonçalo Amorim’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Gonçalo Amorim.
Rending
5.2/10
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
Veneno Cura
5.7/10
In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.
Ensaio Sobre o Teatro
This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.
Paixão
5/10
A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.
Se Podes Olhar Vê. Se Podes Ver Repara
How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
Owners of Portugal
7.4/10
Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power.
The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation.
Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis.
As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.
