Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s The Tsugua Diaries brooklynrail.org/2022/06/film/Maureen-Fazendeiro-and-Miguel-Gomess-The-Tsugua-Diaries Caitlin Quinlan
1 de junho de 2022
Film
The film feels as warm as the Portuguese climate. Time waxes and wanes, structure loses shape and coherence in the sunshine. If nothing else, this is a luxurious watch.
Courtesy The Match Factory. Directed by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes The Tsugua Diaries (2021) The isolated, low, thumping bass line introduction to “The Night” by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons heralds the start of an intimate house party for three in the opening scene of Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s The Tsugua Diaries (2021). Actors Crista Alfaiate, Carloto Cotta, and João Nunes Monteiro dance around the living room as the lights dim and neon purple lamps start to glow mysteriously through the windows from outside. In a mostly unstructured, plotless film, one of the few indications of narrative
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