This documentary shows a peculiar vision about theatre in general and O Bando in particular, on the bases of João Brites' directing the showcase of “ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA” (essay on blindness), written by José Saramago.
Francia, 1656. Julie decide disfrazarse de espadachín para buscar a su verdadera familia después de que unos hombres hayan asesinado a su padre adoptivo, Gastón de Maupin. En su búsqueda tendrá que enfrentarse a miles de obstáculos y peligros. (FILMAFFINITY)
How would you react if you couldn't see? In rehearsing the theatrical adaptation of "Blindness", by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, the company "O Bando" made the experience. The actors lived 24 hours blindfolded in an abandoned hospital. How would you react if you could see again?
En Londres, poco antes de las Navidades, se entrelazan una serie de historias divertidas y conmovedoras. 'Love Actually' es una manera abreviada de decir 'Love Actually Is All Around' y éste es precisamente el argumento de la película: mires a donde mires, encontrarás el amor en todas partes. Todos los personajes, cada uno a su manera (un primer ministro, una vieja estrella del rock, una asistenta portuguesa que sólo habla su idioma), están relacionados con los aspectos más divertidos, tristes, ingenuos y estúpidos del amor.
In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...
