I Was in Lisbon and Remembered You (movie)
Estive em Lisboa e Lembrei de Você- User score: 8.5
- Production country: Brazil, Portugal
- Producer: José Barahona
- Production companies: David & Golias, Mutuca Filmes, Refinaria Filmes
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 10/25/2015
- Run time: 94 min.
Movie description
"In the beginning of this project, I wanted to do a documentary film based on this book by Luiz Ruffato. However, I ended up doing a feature film with many links to documentary. I wanted to know what made Brazilians want to emigrate to Portugal. I chose working with amateur actors and non-actors in both cities, so their own life stories and experiences could be in the film. I did the other way round from the writer. He found these people and made them characters of his book. I looked for people who had similar stories to those described in the book, and made them characters of my film. When I read the book, I was seduced by its "false documentary" characteristic. The book was all written as if it was the transcription of an oral interview the writer had done in Lisbon. I decided to keep this narrative in the film, by a narration with the main character talking to the camera. It's a film about emigration. About dreams and disappointments," says Barahona
