Mário Peixoto directs Olga Breno, Taciana Rey and Raul Schnoor in this arthouse classic from Brazil where three strangers are on a boat remembering the lives they abandoned.

The above synopsis I had to look up midway through the movie. I tried my best to concentrate. To figure out what was going on. I was aware, prepared even, that watching non-genre silent cinema often means I have to reprogram myself. Reset myself to a different movie storytelling grammar. I focussed really hard, enjoyed some of the imagery. But I just couldn’t fathom who was who, what was what. So an hour in I paused it, went on Wikipedia and read the plot. Whatever magic this contains was dispelled by that concession. Well done for surviving lost film but you just aren’t for me.

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