Alta Fidelidade (2000 TV Movie) User Reviews

Even though

[Dockelektro · 8/10 · 8 September 2001]

Even though:

• the movie is not a masterpiece in what concerns character development

• the "cool" dialogue looks like it was manufactured

• that ending looks more like they ran out of money, and an easy way to end things up

This was a movie I instinctively found appealing, since it doesn't aim for deepness, or even a wide array of public. It is a movie for young people, with a too good cinematography to be left unnoticed and a fresh taste in the mouth of portuguese cinema. Even though this one will make many enemies, its friends will love it. I just can say that I hope the visual ideas they put on film here remain an example of how to make a good-looking film with few money. Keep in touch.

It has a great cinematography for a Portuguese movie!

[mario_c · 8/10 · 18 January 2009]

ALTA FIDELIDADE is another of those TV movies produced and broadcasted by the Portuguese TV station SIC some years ago. In spite of being a TV movie it's a very good movie and it has a kind of cinematography that is not used too many times in Portuguese films. In fact the camera work is very good and the soundtrack (which uses to be bad in Portuguese films) is also great and very connected to the movie. The Techno party scene is my favourite and I think it's just great!

The plot is about two friends, NUNO (Pedro Laginha) and FLASH (Miguel Borges) which live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. It's when they meet CARLA (Maria João Bastos). She starts living with them and predictably one of them, in this case NUNO, falls in love with her... Everything was going fine until he goes to Amsterdam. After his back he's told FLASH and CARLA had an affair... They broke up but after a Techno party in their house (which was already planned) things went even worse...

This movie surprised me a bit because I didn't expect this kind of cinematography. The plot is nice, nothing too original but nice enough; but the cinematography is really good and I would even say it's exceptional to Portuguese standards! The acting is also fine and I would like to mention it stars a very promising actress in the beginning of her career at that time: Maria João Bastos. She did well her character as the other two main actors. I just didn't like some secondary characters in this movie, because I think the actors had to do a better job. I'm talking for instance about Rogério Samora...

Well, all in all I enjoyed the movie and I think it adds something to the Portuguese cinema in spite of being just a TV movie... I score it 8/10 (mainly for its cinematography).

Could have been better... way better!

[jferreira93 · 6/10 · 21 May 2016]

Two friends, Nuno (Pedro Laginha) and Flash (Miguel Borges) live together and decide to rent one room of the house in order to have more money to pay the rent. that's when they meet Carla (Maria João Bastos) who might change their lives forever.

It's a movie with an interesting premise which is ruined by a very exaggerated dialogue and acting and a very poor ending, there's also a few characters who are not used right, Like "Carlos" (Rogério Samora) and "Yen" (Isabel Abreu) for example, characters who are just "there" and don't add much to the story.

The cinematography is pretty good, the editing and pacing of the movie are also good.

It's an average movie, that could have been pretty good, it's a shame that it is not. My vote is 6

Title (Portugal) - "Alta Fidelidade" ("High Fidelity")