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5.9/10   1,080 votes
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Writers:
Alexandre Melo (writer)
José Neves (writer)
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Release Date:
20 October 2000 (Portugal) more
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Tagline:
No one can live without love!
Plot:
Young and handsome Sergio works the night shift as a trash collector in Lisbon, Portugal. He can't force... more | add synopsis
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2 wins & 2 nominations more
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Cast

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Ricardo Meneses ... Sergio
Beatriz Torcato ... Fatima
Andre Barbosa ... Joao
Eurico Vieira ... Virgilio
Joaquim Oliveira ... Mario
Florindo Lourenço ... Matos
Rodrigo Garin ... Young man in bathroom
Jorge Almeida ... Police 1
Maria Paola Porru ... João's Mother
Luis Zorro ... Young man in Sergio's room
Salomão ... Man with Doberman
João Rui Guerra da Mata ... Police 2
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Phantom (International: English title)
The Phantom (Australia) (DVD title)
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90 min
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The scavenger, 30 May 2005
6/10
Author: valadas from Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

What begins as a story of a homosexual young scavenger in the streets of Lisbon ends like an almost surreal wandering of a cartoon character amid images of litter and desolate sceneries. The sequences of the first half of the movie seem to show the young man's lonely course, obsessed by the love of men's bodies and motorbikes and feeling equally excited when he caresses any of them. His only friend is the dog which goes everywhere with him. This first half although made of a lot of fragmentary scenes some of them very crude and hard core, has some meaning by showing in acceptable realistic terms the young man's obsessive course. But in my opinion the final scenes twist that meaning and change something psychologically real and authentic into some rare pathologic anomaly of the mind which devalues the whole story a lot. The movie has however some value because of the convincing visual harshness of scenes in its first half, combining in a somewhat symbolic way the real garbage the scavengers have to collect with the filthy obsessions in the main character's mind in a series of simultaneously uncommon and sordid but real scenes.

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