1st Time 16mm

Between 1986 and 1987 a young group of finalists of Lisbon Cinema School, without financial means, begins the shootings of a feature called “Em Obsessão”, this film is shot between Portugal, Venice and Paris. When they were going to the last shootings they had a car accident and the leading actor, a teenager, died. This film, although romanced, is based on the incidents of the shootings of that film…

Miguel, a chain-smoking, enigmatic young film director, recruits an enthusiastic young crew to help him realise his vision of shooting an equally enigmatic film on 16mm. Despite never seeing anything approaching a script, the crew by and large spend two years following him between Lisbon, Venice and Paris - even when it seems that the whole effort might be just to impress his leading lady. Shot in a clipped and elliptical style, Goulart's film possesses an anarchic humour and an admirable disregard for convention. What comes across initially as wilfully perverse and mannered reveals itself to be a warm and wry celebration of the incidental.
(Cork Film Festival catalogue)