Requiem

Requiem

104 mins | Drama | June 3, 1998

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.

Requiem

104 mins | Drama | June 3, 1998

Requiem
What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a man who lives both in the world of dreams and reality, searches his past, in order to understand its meaning. He has meetings with the ghosts of his dead friend, his dead lover, his dead father and Pessoa, the great portuguese writer. These four encounters give him clues about what he is looking for. Beside that, he finds himself in front of art, discovering how it modifies our comprehension of life. It's based in one of Tabucci's (the italian writer)books: "Requiem". This few lines cannot resume the greatness of this movie. The last thing I can say is: If you like art, I recommend you to see it. If you ever wonder about the nature of dreams, or you live in dreams half of the time, I think you'll feel like this movie was made for you.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers
Original title Requiem
Directors Alain Tanner
Writers Antonio Tabucchi, Bernard Comment, Alain Tanner

Cast

Francis Frappat

as Paul

André Marcon

as Pierre

Márcia Breia

as Mrs. Casimira

Zita Duarte

as Gypsy

Canto e Castro

as The lame man of the lottery

Lia Gama

as Isadora

Raul Solnado

as Cemetery guard

Miguel Yeco

as Fernando Pessoa

Alexandre Zloto

as Father

Cécile Tanner

as Christine

João Maria Pinto

as The train controller

Sérgio Godinho

as The doorkeeper of the pension

Anna Carvalho

as The girl

Daniel Martinho

as The cab driver

Myriam Szabo

as Isabel

Bibi Perestrelo

as The woman at the lighthouse

Carlos Rodrigues

as newspaper salesman