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Another fabulous poster of the fabulous movie I've recently watched in Lisbon!... Please note that the first three musics now playing at Rádio Atlântico Azul are from its soundtrack. My favourite is the second one, a duet of Pierce Brosnan with Merryl Streep!... Awsome!!!...

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Another scene from «Tropa de Elite» («Elite Squad»). * Mais uma cena do filme «Tropa de Elite». Da esquerda para a direita:

• Capitão Nascimento (Wagner Moura), um agente da polícia honesto, corajoso e determinado, que pretende deixar o BOPE com a certeza de que terá um substituto digno;
• Aspirante Neto Gouveia (Caio Junqueira), um jovem idealista e impulsivo, que decidiu ingressar na PM, mas desiludiu-se com a corporação após testemunhar a incompetência e a corrupção por parte dos colegas. Ao tentar ajudar um oficial do seu batalhão que havia sido levado para uma armadilha por outros agentes policiais, Neto conhece o Capitão Roberto Nascimento e decide ingressar na BOPE. Leva consigo o seu melhor amigo;
• Aspirante André Matias (André Ramiro): de origens humildes, conseguiu matricular-se no curso de Direito de uma das melhores faculdades do Rio de Janeiro. Demonstra ser um aluno aplicado, mas não concorda com tudo o que os professores e colegas lhe dizem, especialmente quando as aulas vão de encontro à sua vocação como polícia..

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This extraordinary film now playing at last on Lisbon Theaters, «Tropa de Elite» (the «Elite Squad») is about BOPE - Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (Special Police Operations Battalion), the elite group of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). It was awarded with the best movie award of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Bear. You should not miss this movie.

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THE SECRET OF THE GRAINE - O SEGREDO DE UM CUZCUS

Mais um excelente filme a não perder. Podia perfeitamente passar-se no Talaminho. Ou em Alhos Vedros. Ou - pior ainda - na Rocha do Conde de Óbidos.

«Abdellatif Kechiche impressed the Festival in 2004 with his memorable L'Esquive, also a major success in France, about a teenage production of Marivaux on a multi-racial housing estate. His new film is an expansive ensemble comedy-drama filmed in the southern French port of Sète, and centred on a North African dockside community. In his sixties, Monsieur Beiji is tired of a life of toil in a shipyard, and wants to realise his long-cherished dream, opening a floating restaurant specialising in fish-and-couscous dishes (hence the grain and the mullet of the French title). But the ship is still to be renovated, and local dignitaries to be persuaded that the venture has a future. And then there are Beiji's friends and family - including the new woman in his life, his ex-wife and a host of neighbours - who have their own parts to play in the success or failure of his dream.

A richly characterised sprawl of a film, The Secret of the Grain is an affectionate, intimate portrait of a port, a community and a culture, and confirms Kechiche as one of the new filmmakers with the keenest eye for the cultural complexity of 21st century France.»

By Jonathan Romney

«Sète, le port. Monsieur Beiji, la soixantaine fatiguée, se traîne sur le chantier naval du port dans un emploi devenu pénible au fil des années. Père de famille divorcé, s'attachant à rester proche des siens malgré une histoire familiale de ruptures et de tensions que l'on sent prêtes à se raviver, et que les difficultés financières ne font qu'exacerber, il traverse une période délicate de sa vie où tout semble contribuer à lui faire éprouver un sentiment d'inutilité. Une impression d'échec qui lui pèse depuis quelque temps, et dont il ne songe qu'à sortir en créant sa propre affaire : un restaurant. Seulement, rien n'est moins sûr, car son salaire insuffisant et irrégulier est loin de lui offrir les moyens de son ambition. Ce qui ne l'empêche pas d'en rêver, d'en parler, en famille notamment. Une famille qui va peu à peu se souder autour d'un projet, devenu pour tous le symbole d'une quête de vie meilleure. Grâce à leur sens de la débrouille et aux efforts déployés, leur rêve va bientôt voir le jour. Ou presque...»

More information [HERE].

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Forget anything I've said until now regarding movies!!...

FORGET IT!

THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA!!!... You must watch it immediately and buy the DVD and buy the Soundtrack and buy a ticket to Lebanon right away!!!

It's called «Sukkar banat» («Caramel»), written and directed by Nadine Labaki, who also plays one of the main roles (Layal, who works at a beauty salon in Beirut along with three other women).

It is basically a romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut (Nadine's very own Beirut, as she writes at the end of the movie), but it could actually take place in a beauty salon at the old part of Lisbon's downtown...

Each character in the movie has a problem (just like any other women in the World):

1. Layal has a sick and unbalanced relationship with a married man (the things she did for Love, I guess all girls have done it, eventually, in one way or another...);
2. Nisrine, who is no more a virgin, will soon be married to a Muslim;
3. Rima is lesbian;
4. Jamal is worried about getting old;
5. Rose, a tailor woman with a shop next to the salon, is an old lady who devoted her whole life to take care of her older sister, Lili, having found her first love...

It is spoken in Arabic and a bit of French, something I had never EVER seen or heard before and sounds really great!!!... The soundtrack, by Khaled Mouzanar, is OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD, so it is now playing at Radio Atlantico Azul!!!... Ah... What a great movie!...