Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Just after he is released from jail, Sombra returns to his old neighborhood. In a couple of days, he ends up back in a completely impossible situation when he can’t pay back a loan from a local drug dealer. All he can do is flee. But where to? After all, his enemies are everywhere.
Just after he is released from jail, Sombra returns to his old neighborhood. In a couple of days, he ends up back in a completely impossible situation when he can’t pay back a loan from a local drug dealer. All he can do is flee. But where to? After all, his enemies are everywhere.
Entirely improvised, and made in close collaboration with a cast of non-professional actors, everyday life in Lisbon’s Reboleira slum is fictionalised and reimagined as a genre film, refashioned into a film noir by director Basil Da Cunha. A realistic drama, part thriller, part documentary.