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Cidade Rabat

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Cidade Rabat is a melancholic comedy about grief. Helena is 40 and has spent the last two years trying to juggle work and family life with taking care of her mother, who has just died. Helena has a twelve-old daughter called Maria, who spends alternate weeks with her mother and father. Helena has been working as a film producer and feels stifled by the bureaucracy that her job entails. After her mother dies, Helena is struck by a feeling of orphanhood, gloomed by the morbid environment that has enveloped her lately. That gaze touched by the world's misery and sadness, and the fact that she is halfway between the beginning and the end of life, awaken Helena to a second youth.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian There is a refined intelligence at work in this film, a sympathy that keeps it residually alive in your mind after the final credits. Rated: 3/5 Mar 25, 2024 Full Review Sarah Manvel Critic's Notebook More movies which center adult women and the routines of ordinary life are desperately needed, but the grief here and its consequences needed a little more drama in order to be truly interesting. Mar 18, 2023 Full Review Andrew Murray The Upcoming Helena’s defensive walls prove to be so impenetrable that audiences are prohibited from gaining an understanding of the character on an intimate level. The result is a well-made but tiresome affair that creates a disconnect with viewers. Rated: 2/5 Mar 9, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Cidade Rabat is a melancholic comedy about grief. Helena is 40 and has spent the last two years trying to juggle work and family life with taking care of her mother, who has just died. Helena has a twelve-old daughter called Maria, who spends alternate weeks with her mother and father. Helena has been working as a film producer and feels stifled by the bureaucracy that her job entails. After her mother dies, Helena is struck by a feeling of orphanhood, gloomed by the morbid environment that has enveloped her lately. That gaze touched by the world's misery and sadness, and the fact that she is halfway between the beginning and the end of life, awaken Helena to a second youth.
Director
Susana Nobre
Producer
João Matos
Screenwriter
Susana Nobre
Production Co
Terratreme Filmes, KinoElektron
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Original Language
Portuguese
Runtime
1h 41m