Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto / Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto / Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
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Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English, Portuguese, English (embedded)
Genre: Music, Romance | Portugal
DVDRip | MKV | 680 x 572 | AVC @ 1963 Kbps | 150 min | 2.29 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English, Portuguese, English (embedded)
Genre: Music, Romance | Portugal
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity…
IMDB 7.0/10 from 1080 users
Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto / Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto / Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Director: Miguel Gomes
Writer: Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Actors: Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho, Emmanuelle Fèvre
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 150 min
Director's Note
Life isn’t always easy, my friends! In July 2006, there was a minor catastrophe. Shooting of the film, scheduled for the following month, had to be postponed indefinitely. Production funds were short for a demanding screenplay, due to be shot in Portugal’s interior during the August fiestas, and the directors casting choices.
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Quickly getting over that shock, the director decided to set off for the location anyway, with a 16mm camera and a crew of five – small but feisty! – and film everything he deemed worthy of recording, committing himself to rejigging the fiction accordingly. This story and those that follow it can be found in the film, although for the sake of truth it must be acknowledged that appearances are deceptive and that certain directors have an inherent inclination towards mystification.
Documentary? Fiction? Halfway through this film there’s a bridge: the Roman bridge at Coja over the River Alva, from which Paulo “Moleiro” (Miller) hurls himself. Without wishing to sound like Confucius, I would say that from either one of the riverbanks the bridge unites, the other is perfectly visible. And the river is always the same.
Miguel Gomes
by Andrew Schenker
"I don't want actors, I want people," director Miguel Gomes tells an impatient producer in an early scene from his masterpiece Our Beloved Month of August, which itself lies somewhere uncomfortably between documentary and fiction. Frustrated by Gomes' decision to jettison the project's massive script and simply start shooting around the Portuguese countryside, the burly producer challenges his recalcitrant charge: "Find them." And so Gomes does, as the film's lengthy first half serves not only as a casting call among the non-professional locals, but a portrait of a region, focusing both on individual lives, and the local music, ritual and legends that dot the north-central Portuguese landscape.
Intercut with these glimpses of local life are (fictionalized?) scenes of Gomes and his crew struggling to overcome budgetary restrictions and inertia, playing quoits to kill the time between forays into the culture and character of the region. A work exploring the complex interaction of life and cinema, August gives way in the second act to the locally cast fictional film. While this film-within-a-film seems to follow at least partially the premise of the original script—an unsavory love triangle between a father, daughter and cousin who all play in a familial rock band—it derives an unforeseen richness from our understanding of the real-life genesis of the shoot and the ways in which subtle details drawn from local custom creep into and fundamentally shape the emergent work of art—a piece of work which, for all its high level of execution, represents only a fraction of Gomes' stunning achievement.
Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto / Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
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