Recollections of the Yellow House
- heavy
- slow-burn
- inventive
- bleak
- signature
- intimate
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Our read · Recollections of the Yellow House (1989) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal lisbon · grotesque · joao-de-deus entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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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