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Fire of Wind

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The vine bore fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of a landscape. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwaves, it's burning.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Oct 30
What makes “Fire of Wind” superior to the kind of topicality that passes for political filmmaking in the art-house mainstream is its metapolitical essence. Go to Full Review Beatrice Loayza New York Times Oct 30
The film’s intriguing symbolism diminishes over time, but remaining is an elegant portrait of solidarity; a vision of workers enmeshed in the land that sustains them. Go to Full Review Hector A. Gonzalez Loud and Clear Reviews Oct 30
3/5
Marta Mateus’ Fire of Wind contains imagery that is pretty to the eye, yet the filmmaker remains static in her vision. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Oct 30
2.5/5
Ultimately a tad tiresome even with a slim running time of seventy-four minutes, Fire of Wind suggests Mateus has the eye of a formidable filmmaker, but the narrative feels like more of a concept than statement. Go to Full Review Alex Lei In Review Online Oct 30
[Fire of Wind] feels indebted to the contemporary master of Portuguese cinema (and perhaps European cinema as a whole), Pedro Costa. Mateus is not merely a borrowing, however, but also delivering a bold iteration. Go to Full Review Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine Oct 30
If "Fire" is familiar in both its austerity and quasi-revolutionary solidarity, Mateus's command of her craft is clear, and her service in maintaining a particular lineage of severity admirable. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Cast & Crew

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Marta Mateus

Director

Soraia Prudêncio

Actor

Maria Catarina Sapata

Actor

Safir Eizner

Actor

José Moura

Actor

Maria Clara Madeira

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Movie Info

Synopsis The vine bore fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of a landscape. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwaves, it's burning.
Director
Marta Mateus
Producer
Marta Mateus, Pedro Costa, Fabrice Aragno, Richard Copans
Screenwriter
Marta Mateus
Production Co
Les Films d'ici, Clarão Companhia, Casa Azul Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Portuguese
Runtime
1h 12m