Stone of the Kingdom

A dense, theatrical memory-play that drifts between circus and hinterland, asking patience as it folds storytelling into storytelling.

Created by

Luiz Fernando Carvalho

Genres

Drama

Starring

Irandhir Santos, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Prazeres Barbosa

Overview

Death Caetana, the terrible ounce winged, flying over the hinterland where a circus troupe led by an old clown comes to a village. The old clown open a thick book and begins the representation of an enigmatic novel, heroic and memorialistic: The Stone of the Kingdom. The clown is Pedro Dinis Quaderna, the protagonist of the novel, already aged, and the representation of the content will be his own memories. The old clown recalls the moment, "arrested and prematurely aged by suffering , after 41 years" wrote the novel in the public chain Taperoá.

How it feels

Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, art, isolation, fate

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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