Rending (2001)
"Rasganço" (original title)

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

Director:

Raquel Freire

Writer:

Raquel Freire

Stars:

Ricardo Aibéo, Ana Teresa Carvalhosa, Isabel Ruth

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ricardo Aibéo	...	Edgar
Ana Teresa Carvalhosa	...	Ana Rita
Isabel Ruth	...	Dr. Zita Portugal
Paula Marques	...	Maria dos Anjos
Ivo Ferreira	...	Miguel
Ana Brandão	...	Inês
Vasco Freire	...	Tiago
Sara de Castro	...	Lígia
Pedro Cal	...	Xavier
Nicolas Brites	...	Luca
Pedro Castro	...	Vasco
Ana Moreira	...	Laura
Suzana Branco	...	Leonor (as Susana Vidal)
Sandra Rosado	...	Ofélia
Sheylla Barros	...	Liliana

Storyline

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

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Plot Keywords:

murder | male nudity | female frontal nudity | male frontal nudity

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [pt]

Country:

Portugal France

Language:

Portuguese

Release Date:

30 November 2001 (Portugal)

Also Known As:

Rending

Company Credits

Production Co:

Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia (ICAM), Terrafilmes

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Professor: You're not going to learn what really matter in those chairs.

User Reviews

A Flawed Movie That Is Interesting Nonetheless

Rasganço is a movie that is a unique vision of a subject, (the very traditional and elitist world of Coimbra´s University), that I had never seen portrayed in a movie. By unique I mean that it is a movie which doesn't glue itself to any specific genre or tries to blend some of them.

The director just tries to tell the story with her own ideas and therefore with honesty, a major quality in this movie and also in movies in general, especially when the Hollywood industry just produces variations on a handful of subjects and genres, (95% of the cases anyway).

In these conditions it's harder to make a 100% percent effective movie and in this case the picture is not totally accomplished. The fact that it portrays a reality which I am familiarized with was also interesting to me.

I just hope that Portuguese cinema starts making more movies such as this one so that people in general demonstrates more interest in it.