2004 · colonial-war · mozambique · memory
The Murmuring Coast
Directed by Margarida Cardoso2h 0m2004
During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a country of war and when her husband is send on a military mission she starts to fight loneliness. Over time she finds out more about her husband and Mozambique than she would have imagined in her peaceful European home. Racism, violence, injustice and fatalism make life unbearable...
Our read: The Murmuring Coast (2004) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded colonial-war · mozambique · memory entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured colonial-war / mozambique, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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