Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.
Direction
Rodrigues turns a city holiday into hypnotic, bodily ritual.
Cinematography
Golden-hour Lisbon never looked this simultaneously beautiful and wrong.
Production
The basil-vomit staging belongs in a museum, honestly.
Director
João Pedro Rodrigues
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
PT
