Antonio Tabucchi

A personal tribute to the poet Alexandre O'Neill by his dear friend Fernando Lopes.

Islas Azores. En 1944, en las postrimerías de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Lucía, una mujer madura y acostumbrada a la buena vida, llega a la isleta de Porto Pim. Lucía se halla esperando a Pierre, su novio parisino, para marcharse juntos a Buenos Aires, pero éste no consigue salir de Francia. En los días de larga espera conoce a un pescador de ballenas, Lucas, del que se acaba enamorando. Sin embargo el rechazo que sufre por parte de los habitantes de la isla será una dificultad añadida.

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.

A documentary about the life and work of José Cardoso Pires. The information was gathered through a series of interviews made by the journalist Clara Ferreira Alves during autumn and winter of 1997 and also by people who were close to him.

Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has never had. Prune learns that her father took his life and then she accidentally dies by drowning. Marina decides to assume her identity and begins a correspondence with Prune's mother.

En la Lisboa de 1938, cuando los totalitarismos triunfan en Europa, un periodista que ha trabajado siempre en la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un periódico. Su sentido fúnebre de la cultura va a chocar con el espíritu vital de su joven colaborador, con quien mantendrá una estrecha relación. Se desencadenará una crisis personal, que cambiará profundamente la vida del maduro periodista.

En la Lisboa de 1938, cuando los totalitarismos triunfan en Europa, un periodista que ha trabajado siempre en la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un periódico. Su sentido fúnebre de la cultura va a chocar con el espíritu vital de su joven colaborador, con quien mantendrá una estrecha relación. Se desencadenará una crisis personal, que cambiará profundamente la vida del maduro periodista.

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.

The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemihl (Otto Tausig) is a concentration camp survivor, who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there. When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise, he flies into India to try and help. When he gets to Bombay, he discovers that his friend has disappeared. Following the clues left behind by the friend, and based on his acquaintance with him, he journeys to Madras to speak to a Theosophist dignitary there, and then journeys on to Portugues Goa. With each step of his journey, the hero (Jean-Hugues Anglade) becomes more identified with his friend, and re-enacts in his own person the transformations he must have experienced.

What is the shady affair in which the woman is involved, and what is her role? Is or isn't the man a marquis? Who is the young man played by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and why does he own that car? Does Basque nationalism have to do anything with the story? Everybody has something to hide, everybody seems guilty.

What is the shady affair in which the woman is involved, and what is her role? Is or isn't the man a marquis? Who is the young man played by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and why does he own that car? Does Basque nationalism have to do anything with the story? Everybody has something to hide, everybody seems guilty.