Directed by:
Gonçalo WaddingtonCinematography:
Vasco VianaComposer:
Bruno PernadasCast:
Hugo Fernandes, Carla Maciel, Alba Baptista, Adriano Carvalho, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Teresa Sobral, Lydie Barbara, João Pedro Bénard, Azedine Kasri (more)Plots(1)
Patrick, 20 year old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which leads him to jail, following a raid at a party. The authorities then discover his true identity: Mário, a boy who was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. He can choose returning to his family in Portugal and help with the enquiry. When Mário goes back to Portugal, he tries adapting to his new reality: he and his mother hardly know each other and struggle to communicate. She finds it difficult to recognise her son. The only person he can turn to is his cousin. But his two identities conflict: the life in Paris, parties, drugs and promiscuity, and a new rural life amid a broken family. (O Som e a Fúria)
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In his film, Gonçalo Waddington portrays quite convincingly a young man whose (not only) social development from childhood to adolescence was utterly distorted by being kidnapped and abused for many years. On the one hand you can sympathise with him, but on the other, his behaviour is reprehensible. Patrick is a graphic example of a man completely uprooted from a normal life who directs the evil that has been done to him at those around him. Chilling!
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