Set Decoration
Fernando Pessoa, um dos maiores escritores da língua portuguesa, estabeleceu um gigantesco universo paralelo criando uma série de heterônimos para sobreviver à solidão de sua genialidade. José Saramago, Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1998, escreveu a história que vemos aqui, em que o heterônimo Ricardo Reis volta a Portugal após um exílio de 16 anos no Brasil. 1936 é o ano de todos os perigos: do fascismo de Mussolini, do nazismo de Hitler, da Guerra Civil Espanhola e do Estado Novo de Salazar, em Portugal. Fernando Pessoa, o criador, encontra Ricardo Reis, a criatura. Duas mulheres, Lídia e Marcenda, são as paixões carnais e impossíveis de Reis. E aqui, essa jornada tem como tema o realismo fantástico. Adaptação do romance homônimo do escritor português José Saramago.
Set Decoration
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
Set Decoration
Ronaldo is Brazilian, from good families and has a problem. His left hand is nailed to his father's table. The reason: Ronaldo has been abusing cocaine which has led him to accumulate debt.
Their executioners did not forgive the fact that they had to travel once more, and again in vain, to Ronaldo's parents' cottage where he has been hiding.
After confronting some characters (all of them seem sinister in Ronaldo's distorted gaze), the Brazilian manages to solve his problems, as if from a dream.
Flight attendant
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter. A girl photo journalist profits to stay the extra-needed days for repair, to visit the island - and eventually she'll become part of complex relationships among some of the secluded people of the island. Also, a yacht lost in the high seas in 1947 reappears from the misty horizon 50 years later - to unite Fanny and João, a contemporary navigator.
