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A Luminous Life

20250.0 / 1099 min

Drama

Overview

It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.

Cast

Francisco Melo

Nicolau

Cécile Matignon

Federica Balbi

Anna

Gemma Tria

Ângela Ramos

Francisca Alarcão

Margarida Dias

Crew

João Rosas

Director

Paulo Menezes

Director of Photography

João Rosas

Writer

Olivier Blanc

Sound

Luís Miguel Correia

Editor

Pedro Borges

Producer

Cláudia Lopes Costa

Art Direction

François d'Artemare

Co-Producer

Elsa Ferreira

Sound Editor

Laure Arto

Sound Mixer

André Silva Santos

Script Supervisor

Bruno Lourenço

First Assistant Director

Luís Nunes

Second Assistant Director

André Silva Santos

Casting

André Silva Santos

Assistant Director