Moonfish

Moonfish

2000 · 124 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise they’re getting lonely. Hellish summer ends and we’re on a little fishing village, river-side, in Lisbon’s south bank: people make life-changing decisions.

Directed by José Álvaro Morais · Written by Jeanne Waltz

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Beatriz Batarda Maria João
Marcello Urgeghe Gabriel Penha
Ricardo Aibéo Zé Maria
Luís Miguel Cintra Dr. João José
Isabel Ruth Conceição
Paula Guedes Maria Inácia
Asunción Balaguer Benedita
Fernando Heitor Padre Paulo
Afonso Melo Afonso
Lúcia Sigalho Adelina
Rita Durão girl on the road
Rita Loureiro Leninha

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