Inquietude (1998)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Manoel de Oliveira

Writers:

Agustina Bessa-Luís (story)
Prista Monteiro (story)

Release Date:

11 September 1998 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Afonso Araújo	...	Boy
Leonor Araújo	...	Girl
Leonor Baldaque	...	Fisalina
Fernando Bento	...	Fisalina's Father
Rita Blanco	...	Gabi
David Cardoso	...	Friend
Luís Miguel Cintra	...	Son
Diogo Dória	...	Him
Alexandre Melo	...	Friend
João Costa Menezes	...	Guest
Clara Nogueira	...	Maid
André Pacheco	...	Brother 2
Irene Papas	...	Mother
Marco Pereira	...	Brother 1
José Pinto	...	Father
António Reis	...	Count
Isabel Ruth	...	Marta
Leonor Silveira	...	Suzy
Adelaide Teixeira	...	Stepmother
Ricardo Trêpa	...	Boyfriend

Also Known As:

Anxiety (USA)
Inquiétude (France)
Inquietud (Spain)

Runtime:

110 min | Argentina:112 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Country:

Portugal | France | Spain | Switzerland

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

South Korea:12 | France:U | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Casa de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Company:

Gémini Films

Boring! **

From Portugal comes one of the most boring films I have ever seen in my whole life, a trilogy of three stories that are strung together with little connection. The first concerns a famous scientist who is trying to get his equally famous son to commit suicide because only in tragic death is true immortality achieved. The second story is about two men who linger endlessly (and I mean endlessly) about a prostitute they both love, who herself gives seven-hour monologues about the very nature of wallpaper (maybe I wasn't paying very close attention by that point). The third installment, about an unhappy woman in a peasant village who seeks out the help of a Greek hermitic witch and learns a lesson about dissatisfaction, is by far the most interesting tale and the only one that is actually a story as opposed to an acting exercise for melodramatic orators.