Review of Lá Fora

Lá Fora (2004)
9/10
A truly universal story
20 August 2005
It is a very feminine work. Not only because it has a truly dramatic heroine (Laura / Alexandra Lencastre), but also because it is a movie that shows men (or, at least, the main character, performed by Rogerio Samora) losing the strength and the will to connect with the complexity of the world around.

Perhaps the story and places are very Portuguese, but I felt it like truly universal — all of it could happen here, in Spain; in a certain sense, I think it is happening right now in the world of TV and everywhere where money is the main language of communication.

The shooting is always very beautiful (I don't know, but perhaps the cinematographer, Edmundo Diaz, is Spanish). The sound is also very subtle and truly important to define each scene.
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