Otros Cines site gives the film 5 stars, Quintín (Eduardo Antin), known cinema critic and founder of Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, describes it as “an extraordinary film, inspired, non reproducible and joyfull (…) one of the most original and bright films seen in a long time, so sunny it convinces us that cinema can still be a vital experience.”
The film is also being released in Switzerland, at Centre d’Animation Cinématographique Voltaire, in Genève. The theater programmed, from March the 15th to the 28th, a Miguel Gomes Retrospective, which also comprehends his first feature THE FACE YOU DESERVE and his shorts CANTICAL OF ALL CREATURES, PRE-EVOLUTION SOCCER’S ONE MINUTE DANCE AFTER A GOLDEN GOAL IN THE MASTER LEAGUE, KALKITOS, THIRTY ONE, CHRISTMAS INVENTORY and MEANWHILE.
Also in March, OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST, will be screened at Festival Internacional de Cine Punta del Este and XXVII and Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay, in Montevideo.
OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST, a co-production between O Som e a Fúria and Shellac Sud, is a film about what it means to live in the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains. The month of August is abuzz with people and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, fight fires, sing karaoke, hurl themselves from bridges, hunt wild boar, drink beer, make babies. If the director and film crew had got straight to it and resisted the temptation to join in the festivities the synopsis would come down to: OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST follows the affective relationship between a father and daughter, and the daughter’s cousin, all musicians in a dance band.