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  • Trails (1978)
  • 120 min | Drama, Fantasy
Trails (1978)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy
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 ...See moreFor 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. See less
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Writers
Esquilo (play "Euménides") | José Gomes Ferreira | João César Monteiro (screenplay) | Maria Velho da Costa | Carlos de Oliveira (as Carlos D'Oliveira)
Cinematographer
Acácio de Almeida
Editors
João Diogo | João César Monteiro
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Updated May 19, 1978
Release date
May 19, 1978 (Portugal)

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