Alice (2005 film)
- Nuno Lopes: Mário (father)
- Beatriz Batarda: Luísa (mother)
- Miguel Guilherme: Acting colleague
- Bustorff Ana Margarida
- Laura Soveral: Dona Lurdes
- Gonçalo Waddington: Airport Security
- José Wallenstein: detective
- Ivo Canelas: Ricardo
Alice is a feature film by Portuguese director Marco Martins from the year 2005.
Action
There are 193 days passed since the little Alice has gone into the streets of the Baixa pombalina, the lower city of Lisbon, lost. Father Mário roams since streets and squares of the city, sticks and distributed leaflets with the missing person report, daily goes off at the pass, on which Alice is gone, and cameras installed in homes and buildings, the film these trails around the clock. Mário complies with these daily routine that keeps him perforce in contact with other people, and saved him from to come to terms with the loss of the daughter, because he believes they rediscovery through his efforts soon. At night he is as an actor on the stage. Mother Luísa is, however, already worn down by their grief and can barely cope with everyday life. The communication of the pair is clearly difficult, while remaining closely connected to each other through their shared fate.
Reception
The film boasts an oppressive language of his images and the histrionic representations (especially Nuno Lopes as a father and a mother Beatriz Batarda ), to believe the reduced, soulful film music of the pianist Bernardo Sassetti. Alice comes with relatively little dialogue and favor of many unusual settings. Despite these apparently little public appeal style Alice surprised with high visitor numbers. So he still belonged in October 2013 to the 25 most watched Portuguese films ( since the introduction of publicly -run Statistics 2004).
Alice won a number of awards at international film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival, the Caminhos do Cinema Português in Coimbra, the Film Festival Mar del Plata in Argentina and the International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Nuno Lopes was subsequently awarded by the European Film Promotion as a Shooting Star 2006.
Alice was published in 2006 as a DVD, with Lusomundo ( No. 324 /2006), including as Edição especial than two-disc special edition in slipcase.