2018 · documentary · village · ancestry
Bostofrio
Directed by Paulo Carneiro1h 9m2018
In a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather. A series of awkward and funny interviews that reveal the secrets and half truths that are the fabric of rural Portugal.
Our read: Bostofrio (2018) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded documentary · village · ancestry entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured documentary / village, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intimate
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