Our Beloved Month of August ( Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto ) ( Ce cher mois d'août )

Our Beloved Month of August (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto
Alternate Title: Ce cher mois d'août
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
144 min + 23 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Miguel Gomes

Written By:
Miguel Gomes
Telmo Churro

Actors:
Sónia Bandeira ..... Tânia
Fábio Oliveira ..... Hélder
Joaquim Carvalho ..... Celestino
Manuel Soares

Synopsis:

A tantalizing mix of documentary, fiction and everything in between, Miguel Gomes' multi-award-winning love song to rural Portugal is an intoxicating blend of visuals, sound and music. Gorgeously photographed it set one's eyes ablaze and toes tapping, but Gomes goes further to work the brain as a narrative slowly, sneakily emerges out of the (seeming) documentary melody-making. Summoning up memories of French film-makers such as Eric Rohmer and documentarist Nicolas Philibert and in its deliberate drift from fiction into fact, echoes of Pedro Costa and Manoel de Oliviera, the film follows a self-created, evolutionary path to become something wholly individual and unique.

The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes plays with the notion of the film within a film, using nonfiction techniques in a way that places us inside every level of the story and effectively collapses any distinctions among them. Midway through the film, with no real warning, Mr. Gomes's 'screenplay" kicks in, and the actors — who have been present all along, introduced as villagers or traveling musicians during the documentary segments — proceed to play out a slightly lurid family drama within the context that's been established: of rural gossip and church-mandated repression.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 October, 2011.

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