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Fragile as the World

Original title: Frágil Como o Mundo
  • 2001
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
390
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Maria Gonçalves in Fragile as the World (2001)
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An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, thei... Read allAn impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their families, friends and the land where they live. The issue is time. The time they don't a... Read allAn impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their families, friends and the land where they live. The issue is time. The time they don't actually have (studies, families, distant houses) and the time of their own life - being so... Read all

  • Director
    • Rita Azevedo Gomes
  • Writer
    • Rita Azevedo Gomes
  • Stars
    • Maria Gonçalves
    • Bruno Terra
    • Sophie Balabanian
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    390
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Rita Azevedo Gomes
    • Writer
      • Rita Azevedo Gomes
    • Stars
      • Maria Gonçalves
      • Bruno Terra
      • Sophie Balabanian
    • 2User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Maria Gonçalves
    • Vera
    Bruno Terra
    • João
    Sophie Balabanian
    • Mãe de Vera
    Carlos Ferreira
    • Pai de Vera
    Manuela de Freitas
    • Avó
    João Bénard da Costa
    • Avô
    • (as Duarte de Almeida)
    Carolina Villaverde
    • Luzinha
    Maria Celestino da Costa
    • Vera Menina
    Nuno Nunes
    Nuno Nunes
    • Irmão de Vera
    Marta Costa
    • Amiga de Vera
    Margarida Lacerda
    • Amiga
    Henrique Branco
    • Amigo
    Filipe Ferreira
    • Amigo
    João Amorim
    • Amigo
    Francisco Grave
    • Caçador
    Mário Barroso
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Leonor Cabral
    Márcio Martha
    • Director
      • Rita Azevedo Gomes
    • Writer
      • Rita Azevedo Gomes
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    RITA AZEVEDO GOMES

    A dream of young love as the centre on which all benevolent nature revolves, only for that grace to be revealed as blindness. Quite beautiful in its stillness, & visual immersion as a subjective ideal, evoking a reflection of the floating world to mirror the protagonists emotional response, all is wonder as their reality drifts into a visual inertia, not able to freeze the moment they so desire

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    • Trivia
      The title of the film comes from a verse by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919-2004) that goes like this: "Terror of loving you in a place as fragile as the world. Evil of loving you in this place of imperfection..."
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      Featured in Quién lo impide (2021)
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      Ay, triste que vengo
      Written by Juan de la Encina (as Juan del Encina)

      Performed by Guillemette Laurens

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    • Release date
      • July 20, 2001 (Portugal)
    • Country of origin
      • Portugal
    • Official site
      • Madragoa Films
    • Languages
      • Portuguese
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Frágil como el mundo
    • Filming locations
      • Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascáis, Lisbon, Portugal
    • Production companies
      • Madragoa Filmes
      • Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia (ICAM)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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