Films 2023

Runtime:

125 min.

Year of Production:

Country:

Portugal, France

Director:

João Canijo

Cast:

Nuno Lopes
Filipa Areosa
Leonor Silveira
Rafael Morais
Lia Carvalho
Beatriz Batarda
Carolina Amaral
Leonor Vasconcelos

Production Company:

Midas Filmes, Les Films de l'Après-Midi

Berlinale Section:

Encounters

Berlinale Category:

Feature Film

Five women are running an old hotel and trying to save it from inexorable decay. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend: a couple bears the wounds of a long-term misunderstanding; a domineering mother interferes in her daughter’s relationship; two girls try to save their own love story in the face of opposition from a possessive mother. Viver Mal is the reverse shot of Mal Viver, which is screening in the Competition: here, João Canijo reveals everything that was floating in the depth of field in this film’s mirror image. Reality becomes the intertwining and multiplication of different points of view; the intersection between what can be seen and what the eye misses. Like a play of light reflections, Viver Mal is Mal Viver in another dimension. The image is distorted, but at the same time seeks a new definition by relaunching itself into infinity.

FILMOGRAFIE João Canijo (selection)

 Viver mal