The Life We Know
Cláudia Ribeiro spent seven months – since the time of plantation till the crops – capturing the work in the fields of the sisters Ana e Glória, in Passinhos de Cima, between the rivers Douro and Tâmega.It is an isolated place, where the baker, the fish seller, the grocer and their sons visit once a week.
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Cláudia Ribeiro spent seven months – since the time of plantation till the crops – capturing the work in the fields of the sisters Ana e Glória, in Passinhos de Cima, between the rivers Douro and Tâmega. It is an isolated place, where the baker, the fish seller, the grocer and their sons visit once a week. This a film on a way of life, the subsistence agriculture, but also about the humour and the ironies of representation and hospitality.
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- Release date
- Aug 30, 2020
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
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- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Portugal
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.