Marie Massiani

Experimental film by Patrick Bokanowski.

Embora profundamente apaixonada pelo seu namorado - e, na verdade a dormir na mesma cama que ele - uma professora de escola não consegue lidar com a quase total falta de intimidade que ele permite. Cada vez mais frustrada, progressivamente ela descobre que os seus apetites sexuais a levam a situações cada vez de maior risco, incluindo uma que se está a desenvolver com o diretor.

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.

A young aristocrat is seduced by a young man who appeared to her in a dream one spring afternoon. Captive of this impossible love, the young girl is dying of melancholy. But the constancy of her love is stronger than death; she wins the pity of the judge of the underworld, manages to find her lover and come back to life. The opera "The Peony Pavilion" was composed in 1598 by the poet Tang Xianzu (1550-1617), one of the greatest playwrights of the Ming period. Of all the forms of Chinese opera that have followed one another since the 12th century, the kunqu is the one that best preserves the image of a classical art highly appreciated in educated circles for its musical, literary and gestural refinement.