Directed by Marília Rocha
Brazil, Portugal | 2016 | 99 min. | Portuguese with English subtitles | East Coast premiere
Note: All attendees will receive a complimentary pasteis de nata, the famous custard-filled Portuguese pastry, courtesy of the Boston Portuguese Festival, Camoes Institute and Consulate General of Portugal in Boston.Two female friends from Portugal try to put down roots in Belo Horizonte, the heavy metal capital of Brazil, but long for the familiarity of their native Lisbon even while the music of Caetano Veloso tries to seduce them to stay.
Speaker: António Igrejas, Mellon Foundation Lecturer in Portuguese at Wellesley College whose research interests include contemporary Lusophone African, Brazilian and Portuguese literature and film.
Presented in part by the Consulate General of Brazil in Boston
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