Le domaine

Portuguese quality in its best. Great actors and plot.

So well said and exactly what I felt to this movie by jramalho on 8 October 2019, I don't think I need to add more words:

".... This is also because the characters are not as complex as the filmmakers seem to think they are, and the family relations, again, are unsurprising, verging on caricature. The fact that, for some reason, lighting cigarettes/smoking, pouring drinks and looking broodingly into the horizon seem to have been the major acting directions to create all sorts of different tensions does not help (although the lighting is great). You can use those crutches a few times, but when its done all the time it doesn't work. I do not mind excruciatingly slow or long movies, but there is no reason for this film to be either of those things, it might actually benefit from a re-edit."

I rest my case.

The only good thing about the movie was the photography - great landscapes beautifully filmed. Terrible plot, terrible dialogues. Actors would stop in the middle of a sentence (probably trying to remember what comes next) and they just left it like that, instead of repeating the scene. The topic of the movie could be interesting but it was poorly developed. Smoking all the time, it was ridiculous.

A Film from the sixties in the XXI century. Obvious and endless...

I had the opportunity to see 'Coisa Ruim' directed by Tiago Guedes a few years ago, but more recently 'Glória' opened again my appetite for more portuguese cinema.

The cinematography, photography, characterization are no longer a surprise with this team, and once again the excellent work at 'Herdade' is proven. Delicious. The images of the Rio Frio domain demonstrate the many wonders that the Alcochete region has to unveil. Beautiful landscapes (images of the plains, the river and its beautiful horizon).

With regard to performances, I have to highlight the great work of Albano Jerónimo (another one), by far the best worked and most profound character.

As a point of improvement and as I had already highlighted in 'Glória', I feel that the actors mostly have monochord performances that end up giving a slow pace to the show.

As a huge cinema fan that I am, I long for more Herdades e Glórias.

Keep the good work.