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O Desvio

2019 · 13 min

A quiet, fragmented short that drifts between two lives, asking patience and offering no easy answers.

Directed by
Tiago Afonso
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ivo Bastos
Overview
Two erratic journeys whose only relation is all that happens at the same time and in a limited radius. It is a film that refuses to judge, trying to tell two stories while refusing to be subjected to analogies between them.

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Directed by
Tiago Afonso
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ivo Bastos
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • fate
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism7
    Romance1
    Tension3
    Darkness5
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Tiago Afonso
    Starring
    Ivo Bastos
    Runtime
    13 min
    Country
    Portugal
    Languages
    Portuguese

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