The read
It runs a compact 24m.
Synopsis
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
9 audience votes
Key crew
- Gabriel AbrantesDirector
- David LasanthaScreenplay
- Gabriel AbrantesWriter
- Vimukthi JayasundaraScreenplay
Cast
- Natxo ChecaLuís Vaz de Camões
- Jani ZhaoDinamene
- Gabriel AbrantesPortuguese Authority
- David LasanthaOpium Dealer
- Jõao Pedro ValeKing Philipp II
- Alexandre MeloPetrarch
- Gonçalo PenaHomer
- Édith ScobL'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
- Andreia CabralCast
- Joana Pais de BritoNymph III
Stills
Themes
historical figurehistorical fictionexotic localeshort filmportuguese discoveries