O Fantasma (2000)

Este filme é sobre o totalitário de um corpo e a sua impotência. É esse o percurso de Sérgio (Ricardo Meneses), cantoneiro de profissão, que percorre os labirintos do lixo de Lisboa, limpando a cidade, em rotas que ninguém conhece, dos despojos que os outros deixaram. É isso que faz dele uma presença invisível, um “fantasma.”

This is a film about the totalitarian wish of a body and its impotence... Sérgio (Ricardo Meneses), a garbage collector goes through the labyrinths of the garbage of Lisbon, cleaning the city, in routes that nobody knows, keeping garbage items that interests him. There seems to be an invisible presence in his being that dictates what he does... is it “ghost?”

O FANTASMA is an extraordinary psychological film... it’s about one’s deepest fantasy. Its explicitness was entirely appropriate and not pornographic as pornography depicted self-denial. The lead actor’s innocent handsomeness will evoke either empathy or desire or both...

(In PORTUGUESE with ENGLISH subtitles)

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Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981) Pixote, the Law of the Weakest

Pixote (Fernando Ramos da Silva) foi abandonado por seus pais e rouba para viver nas ruas. Ele já esteve internado em reformatórios e isto só ajudou na sua "educação", pois conviveu com todo o tipo de criminoso e jovens delinqüentes que seguem o mesmo caminho. Ele sobrevive se tornando um pequeno traficante de drogas, cafetão e assassino, mesmo tendo apenas onze anos.

Pixote (Fernando Ramos da Silva) was abandoned by his parents and steals to survive. He has been sent to a reformatory where he actually learned all the bad things from his fellow delinquents and criminals. After getting out of the reformatory, he joined his gang-mates in drug trafficking, pimping and even murder. Worst of all -- he is only eleven years old.

(In PORTUGUESE with ENGLISH sub-titles)



PIXOTE: A LEI DO MAIS FRACO is a brilliant offer from Brazil filmed in a quasi-documentary style showing one of the worst scenarios any humankind can experience, that is, living below the poverty line. Indeed, a terrifying truth that serves a very important purpose and that is to see how our poor brothers suffer, not only in Brazil but in the rest of the world. A must see, most definitely!

Garçon Stupide (2004)

Loïc (Pierre Chatagny), un jeune garçon de 20 ans travaille comme ouvrier à la chaîne dans une manufacture de barres de chocolat. La nuit, il rencontre machinalement, sur Internet, puis en personne, de nombreux hommes avec qu'il laisse libre-cours à certains fanstasmes sexuels. Il a aussi, dans sa vie, une amie de longue date qui l'héberge chez elle lorsqu'il doit revenir de ses nuits endiablées. Loïc déambule de son existence sans pourtant la vivre. Trois événements majeurs déclencheront chez lui une soif de passer à l'âge adulte, à l'affirmation et à la découverte de soi. Une fiction voulant mêler des traits du documentaire et du ciné-réalité au scénario.

Twenty-year-old Loïc (Pierre Chatagny) works by day in a chocolate factory and by night cruises the internet for sex with older men. His life is a series of pointless anonymous sexual encounters until he meets one man who appears to be interested in him for himself, and not just his body. Loïc's journey to self awareness is told through a series of episodic events, such as the suicide of his best friend, his growing infatuation with a local team's soccer star, Rui Alves (Rui Pedro Alves), a car accident and subsequent hospitalisation which uncomfortably reunites him with his parents. At the end of the film he realizes that he can be his own person and he recites a list of things he will never do in order to fit in and belong.

GARÇON STUPIDE (STUPID BOY internationally) is a docu-drama from Switzerland that succeeded with ease because of the great characterisation of its lead star who is in fact, a straight guy in real life. Great cinematography and great sceneries that somehow serve as metaphors to the life of a confused guy trying to discover his true identity.

(In FRENCH with ENGLISH subtitles)

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