PORTO

Two foreigners live in the city of Oporto, the American Jake [Anton Yelchin, in his final acting appearance, editor’s note] and the girl Mati, a student from France. Destiny seems to be toying with them, as they run into each other at different times and places. Jake takes advantage of the opportunity provided by these casual encounters, gets up his courage and approaches Mati. Despite the good start, it isn’t the beginning of a love story but a one night stand. The memory of that night will return insistently in the lives of these two occasional lovers, showing them the power of an encounter. [rm]

“Jake and Mati are characters stuck in time. They are stuck in one night, even though they are no longer living that one night. They are perhaps thinking about it or dreaming it. There’s something James Benning says that really resonates with me: ‘All of time is just memory.’ That’s really what the film is about, and in contrasting these different shooting formats, in exploring what they could reveal to the audience about how we live time through memory (and dream), I could begin to say something really poignant about these two characters.”

regia/director
Gabe Klinger
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Larry Gross, Gabe Klinger
fotografia/cinematography
Wyatt Garfield
montaggio/film editing
Gabe Klinger, Géraldine Mangenot
scenografia/production design
Ricardo Preto
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Anton Yelchin (Jake), Lucie Lucas (Mati), Françoise Lebrun, Paulo Calatré, Chantal Akerman (voce/voice)
produttori/producers
Rodrigo Areias, Sonia Buchman, Gabe Klinger, Nicolas R. de la Mothe, Todd Remis, Julie R. Snyder
produzione/production
Bando à parte, Gladys Glover, Double Play Films, Madants
coproduttori/coproducers
Klaudia Śmieja, Beata Rzeźniczek


contatti/contacts
New Europe Film Sales
Ewa Bojanowska
ewa@neweuropefilmsales.com
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