PARTO

Portugal
2010
80 minutes

A funeral agent travels around a remote Northern region of Portugal to organise a funeral. Amateurish attempt at creating a rural documentary around a fictional framework, with real people playing their own roles, with a real eye for the landscape lost amid the general staginess.

With Olegário Gonçalves, Raul Sá e Sousa, Carlos Xavier Dias.
Directed and produced by António Borges Correia; written by José Pinto Carneiro, Mr. Borges Correia; director of photography (colour), Miguel Robalo; art director, Margarida Amaro; film editors, Mr. Borges Correia, Nuno Bouça.
An António Borges Correia production, with financial support from Município de Arcos de Valdevez.
Screened: DocLisboa 2010 advance DVD screener, Lisbon, October 16th 2010.

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