THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON (O FIO DO HORIZONTE) A Tribute to Contemporary Portuguese Cinema

“We have two lives: the real one which we
dream about in childhood; and the false
one which we share with others, and
which finishes in a coffin.”-Alvaro de
Campos. Just another shooting on Lisbon’s
docks-but as nightshift pathologist
Claude Brasseur examines the body he
gets a very rude shock of recognition. A
shock that leads him on a quest to a
remote shrine, a sepulchral hooker and an
encounter on a staircase. A uniquely eerie
combination of Kafka and Cornell
Woolrich (the de Campos quote is first
viewed from a Polaroid found in the dead
man’s pocket) with still one more unsettling
twist after you thought it was safe.
Michael Jeck, AF/ Washington D.C.