FRÁGIL

You're in a great rush / To go to that fuss / To spend eight hours alienating / But you already do that / From Monday to Friday. / And at the Club / You’re the one paying.

“Miguel wants to have fun, but for him there is only fun in the ‘club’. As much as his friends try to show him that the ‘club’ is an oppressive place of solitude, Miguel refuses to listen. Fragile is a film that is born both out of reality and out of cinema (because, as we are well aware, there is no separation between the two). If cinema in the classic age was associated with the dream, in psychotropic and punk capitalism of the XXI century, cinema can only manifest itself as a trip. This trip is still the anarchic possibility of escape from the world of institutions and obligation, whether these are work, family or large corporations (or clubs!) that regulate the nightlife industry. The conflict between the search for individual pleasure and the acceptance of the plurality of a group of friends is the motto for this story, inspired by the daily and festive reality of young people in Lisbon (and a little bit around the world). Young people who stretch the night until daylight, always looking for new thrills, new adventures that allow them to put off their return to the ‘normal’ world. After all, their family is within the group of friends, and their new home is the infinite afterparty. This is the life that I share with my friends, to which only the hallucinatory force of cinema could do justice.”

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, FILM EDITING: Pedro Henrique. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Manuel Pinho Braga.: Pedro Henrique. SOUND: Alexandre Franco, Joana Niza Braga, Ivan Neskov. ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: Diogo Batista. MUSIC: Caroline Lethô, Co$tanza, DJ Problemas, Enko, Foreign, Gabriel Ferrandini, Go Suck a Fuck, Moreno Ácido, Odete, Opus Pistorum, Peterr, Positive Centre, Ppueblo, Prec, Pseudo Bugs, Putas Bêbadas, Relapso, Rubera Roots Band, Sabre, Schuro, Serpente, Silvestre, Van Ayres. CAST: Miguel Ângelo Santarém, Francisco Belard, Redgi Cardoso, Clara Dias, Sara Leite, Rafaela Viana, Bruno Silva, Tomás Villar, João Robalo. PRODUCERS: Justin Amorim, Pedro Henrique, Tiago Simões. PRODUCTION: Promenade. COPRODUCTION: Videolotion, Around Meridian.