PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Felipa Reis, Joao Miller Guerra, directors of the film Legua.
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Felipa Reis and Joao Miller Guerra are used to work together; this time they focus on Joao’s village, Legua, to tell a story about three women, the passing of time and the concept of family ties, in the widest meaning. of the word. There is a lot of each one of them , and of us, in this film, as they explained in this interview form the Directors Forthnight Beach, in Cannes.
Legua: At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana’s daughter, challenges her mother’s choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.