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...Quando Troveja (1999)
a must see!
I saw this movie yesterday and i was amazed by his quality! I kept wondering how is it possible that i had never seen this movie before (i'm Portuguese and it is a Portuguese movie directed ten years ago!).
The connection between the characters is not obvious at the beginning, in a Magnolia, Mulhand Drive kind of way, but we soon realizes that is a connection between the main characters (António and Rute) and the magic characters, Violeta and Gaspar.
This movie is one of the kind:
the dialogs say everything without great explanations. Just the day by day life of a men whose heart was recently broken. I think it has all main ingredients of a great story: friendship, love, sorrow and faith.
It is a modern tale, it combines the fairly tales of Sintra (portuguese village where Edgar Alan Poe lived) with practical issues (lack of work, drinking, broken friendships).
I think this is the right movie to answer the question in troubled times: "why am i facing this alone?"
you just have to be clever to understand the story, it isn't a movie to be seen by everyone.