Que Farei Eu com Esta Espada?
- sombre
- slow-burn
- inventive
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
Our read · Que Farei Eu com Esta Espada? (1975) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive revolution · documentary · essay entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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