In “A Invenção do Amor” by António Campos, a couple is chased down by the Police and the city inhabitants for the crime of having invented love. Inspired by a homonymous poem by the Cape-Verdean poet, Daniel Filipe. As the first fiction of Campos, more known for his ethnographic work, it’s an allegory for the Estado Novo, shot with his friends in Leiria and forbidden from being screened by the state´s censorship.
Credits
Director António Campos Script António Campos Producer António de Campos Cast MariaCarolina Young, Joaquim Manuel (Quiné), Manuel Catarro Language Portuguese Copy Cinemateca Portuguesa
António Campos
Director "A Invenção do Amor"
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