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Our Madness

2018 · 88 min

A slow, dreamlike drift through a woman's fractured inner world, where music and memory blur together in a quiet, haunting haze.

Directed by
João Viana
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ernania Rainha, Pak Ndjamena, Hanic Corio
Overview
Ernania is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son, Hanic, and her husband, Pak, who is a soldier of the war. In the meantime, a quirky musical instrument plays: her own bed. Ernania’s musical virtuosity, attracts the attention of the hospital nurses. One day, her song is played in a radio program and Rosa, an evangelical priest of “Rádio Moçambique”, goes to the hospital to listen to Ernania’s song. Ernania takes the priest’s visit as an opportunity to run away from the hospital.

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Directed by
João Viana
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ernania Rainha, Pak Ndjamena, Hanic Corio
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 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
  • madness
  • isolation
  • family
  • freedom
  • faith
Places
  • hospital
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism6
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
88 min
Country
Guinea-Bissau, Qatar, Mozambique, Portugal, France
Languages
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