Summary 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 glistening 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. View more details
Directed : João César Monteiro
Written : João César Monteiro Esquilo José Gomes Ferreira
Stars : Manuela de Freitas Luís de Sousa Costa Francisco Domingues Carmen Duarte Ferreira
Genres : Fantasy Drama
Release date : May 18, 1978
Countries of origin : Portugal
Language : Portuguese
Production companies : Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)
Summary 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 glistening 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. View more details
Genres : Fantasy Drama
Release date : May 18, 1978
Countries of origin : Portugal
Language : Portuguese
Production companies : Instituto Português de Cinema (IPC)
