Our Beloved Month of August (Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto)

A tantalizing mix of documentary, fiction and everything in between, Miguel Gomes' multi-award winning love song to rural Portugal is an intoxicating blend of visuals, sound and music. Gorgeously photographed and intricately structured, Gomes creates a narrative that slowly, sneakily, emerges out of the documentary melody-making.

Recalling the works of film-makers such as Eric Rohmer and documentarist Nicolas Philibert, and in its deliberate drift from fiction into fact, echoes of Pedro Costa and Manoel de Oliveira, the film follows a self-created, evolutionary path to become something wholly individual and unique.

2008 Cannes Film Festival / Official Selection -- Director's Fortnight
2008 Vienale / FIPRESCI Prize, Miguel Gomes
2008 São Paulo International Film Festival / Winner: Critics Award, Best Film

"Gomes' love song to rural Portugal, scores viscerally as well as intellectually...
An enjoyably bewildering enigma" Variety

"A hybrid work of bewitching perversity... a tender and perceptive portrait of a richly ordinary enclosed world" Sight & Sound

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