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Past Perfect

2019 · 23 min

A slow, essayistic drift through national nostalgia and denial, more mood and argument than story, asking you to sit with discomfort.

Overview
Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least. This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • memory
  • identity
  • politics
  • isolation
  • class
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Jorge Jácome
Written by
Jorge Jácome, Pedro Penim
Cinematography
Jorge Jácome, Marta Simões
Runtime
23 min
Country
Portugal
Languages
Portuguese

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