Légua

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Légua

2023

1h 59m

Drama

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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.

Wendy Ide

Screen International

05/23/2023

A film that embraces the mundane rhythms of domestic service as a means to interrogate the end of an era, but which is too passive in its storytelling to drive its point home.

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Nadine Whitney

The Curb

09/18/2023

Légua is a melancholy film, but it is a film about life as it is lived by so many. The ordinary world is also the infinite world and Légua reminds us that we are living in both simultaneously.

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Martin Kudlac

ScreenAnarchy

06/12/2023

A thoughtful contemplation of time's passage. ... Despite its docu-fiction format, Reis and Miller Guerra's latest work evolves into a sensory experience.

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Alexander Miller

Film Inquiry

06/05/2023

The film, in its entirety, looks and feels profound, but there are moments when it wanders a bit too far, leaving us a little unmoored.

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

06/03/2023

56/100

Légua doesn’t realize something new or all that meaningful about cinema, but it does pare down its subject and form to a specificity that borders on the transcendental.

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Jara Yáñez

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

06/01/2023

Légua transmits the powerful ability to approach the expression of sensitivity throughout the body. [Full review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra
Producer: Rachel Daisy Ellis, Filipa Reis, Catarina Mourão, Jon Coplon
Screenwriter: Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra, Sara Morais, José Filipe Costa, Letícia Simões
Production Co: Laranja Azul, Stayblack Productions, KG Productions, Uma Pedra no Sapato
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 1h 59m