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Born with a Thunderstorm

2017 · 140 min

An intimate, letter-driven portrait that feels like a quiet, scholarly excavation of a filmmaker's life and a nation's cinematic past.

Directed by: Leonor Areal
Genres: Documentary, History
Starring: Manuel Guimarães, António da Cunha Telles, José Eduardo Rocha

Overview: The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and his complete filmography. One segment documents the epic way directors attempted to bypass official censorship to show their movies out of the country.

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Directed by: Leonor Areal
Genres: Documentary, History
Starring: Manuel Guimarães, António da Cunha Telles, José Eduardo Rocha

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
memory
politics
isolation
identity
Places: single country house
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Humour	2
Realism	9
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Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: documentary, history
Directed by: Leonor Areal
Starring: Manuel Guimarães, António da Cunha Telles, José Eduardo Rocha
Runtime: 140 min
Country: Portugal
Languages: Portuguese

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