Film / 2010

Civil War

Name: Civil War
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010-04-27
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Francisco Belard, Maria Leite, Nuno Romano, Catarina Wall, Pedro M. Ruivo

Directed by Pedro Caldas

Drama

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

Summer of 1982, a beach in the south of Portugal. Rui and his parents live closed in their worlds, blind to the failure that characterizes them as a family and condemns them to the malaise of survival. Rui will have school exams but he is only interested in music and in the exploration of imaginary worlds that he constantly sketches in drawings. Only Joana seems capable of pulling him out of his autism. The girl's …

The story

Summer of 1982, a beach in the south of Portugal. Rui and his parents live closed in their worlds, blind to the failure that characterizes them as a family and condemns them to the malaise of survival.
Rui will have school exams but he is only interested in music and in the exploration of imaginary worlds that he constantly sketches in drawings. Only Joana seems capable of pulling him out of his autism. The girl's vitality fascinates him.