The Face You Deserve ( A Cara que Mereces )

The Face You Deserve (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: A Cara que Mereces
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Surround )

Product Origin/Format:
Portugal ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Miguel Gomes

Written By:
Miguel Gomes
Manuel Mozos

Actors:
José Airosa ..... Francisco
Gracinda Nave ..... Marta
Sara Graça ..... Vera
Miguel Barroso ..... Carlos
João Nicolau ..... Nicolau
Ricardo Gross ..... Gross
Rui Catalão ..... Travassos
Antonio Figueiredo ..... Copi
Manuel Mozos ..... Harry
Carloto Cotta ..... Texas
Pedro Caldas ..... Simões
João Pedro Bénard ..... Médico
Francisco Hestnes Ferreira

Synopsis:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs meets Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating in Miguel's Gomes's striking first feature, a two-part musical-cum-magic-realist puzzle box. The film begins with an epigram: 'Up to your 30s, you have the face God has given you. After that you get the face you deserve.' A prelude then tells of sullen, snarly Francisco, a children's entertainer who's turning 30 and having a hard time of it. He's also more than a little childish himself. A drastic narrative shift takes us to the film's second part (Francisco's measles-fever dream?), a Lord of the Flies-like fairytale in which seven grown men, inhabiting a cottage in the woods, live their lives according to a set of childish rules and ritual games. A wry, deadpan, deeply strange work, gorgeously shot and composed, The Face You Deserve has 'unique energy and puckish charm'.

Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: 'Up to your 30's you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve'.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 10 January, 2012.