Evening Star

Maria Helena, 57 years old, lives in the small village of Lourel, on the outskirts of Lisbon. Her days are divided by the several chores imposed by household keeping: floor-washing, bathroom cleaning, doing the laundry. This is the story of a housewife who wished to fly faraway but didn’t, perhaps, as she puts it, because she was born “before time”. She goes through the daily routine with all she has left: memories and songs from another time, from a revolution (April, 1974), that fill in the soundtrack of her world and of her days.

• Madalena MirandaWriter · Director
• Tiago AntunesEditor

Release date

January 1, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

Portuguese

Runtime

25m

Genres

Documentary