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A Cara que Mereces (2004)
Quite incomprehensible
I really hope this is not the way Portuguese cinema is going, as the previous review enthusiastically claims. The film is in two parts with no relation that I could discern between each other, and both with essentially no storyline. The first part is not too bad actually, and seems to be about the distress of someone turning 30 without much to show for it. The second part is absurd, a kind of hid and seek children's game where the actors are adults impersonating children. It goes on for ages with nothing really happening at all.
The only positive aspect of the move are the two or three songs in the first part. The voices are really stunningly beautiful and almost haunting in their ambivalence between being joyful and sad, and the music is beautiful. Indeed, I have been trying to find some recording of this but could not find any. If anyone can tell me how to find them or other songs by the same singer I would really appreciate it.