DRIFTS (Derivas) a film by Ricardo Costa
A portrait of Lisbon drawn through the peregrinations of two unfit venerable brothers across the city
After MISTS (Brumas), it is the second film (comedy) of a biographic trilogy on human wanderings
Ricardo is a professional photographer António is a retired clock maker
Unexpectedly, he arrives from Paris, where he was ran over by a car getting cripple shortly after his vacancy in Hat Yuan
He walks up and down the city hills to heal his leg
Ricardo takes photos of the city to make some money
THEY MEET UNCOMMON PEOPLE
A crazy English speaking youngman LI, who makes oil paintings
Ricardo meets
the astrophysicien who makes him see farther than his binoculars
António meets old friends
Argentina, one of the most beautiful girls he met Quim, the newspapers seller near the Cinema Piolho
old friend Lunetas, a prominent Lisbon intelectual Goffredo and Fernando, experts in time matters
BOTH SHARE A NEW FRIENDSHIP
She Is introduced by António. Ricardo thrills her with some books from his library
Certain can´t be read. Then she looses the thread
Mariana, the University of Lisbon student in Classical Studies, reeds about Theseus, Ariadne, the Labyrinth
and waits for the photo to be taken
António heals his leg at last Gets tired of Lisbon
Improves locomotion Says good-bye to his friends
Ricardo will be the last one to know he will leave the country for a long trip next day
Philosophy and expertise made him understand that there are no reasons to stay
He loves exotic fruits enrapturing landscapes like those of Nosy Komba
And there he goes while Ricardo stays
stepping on ambiguous sentences written on the ground along the quays which lead nowhere
He often goes there to watch the sea when the sun sets
Ricardo will be the last one to know he will leave the country for a long trip next day
autobiography comedy docufiction
DRIFTS producer´s page
A portrait of Lisbon drawn through the peregrinations of two unfitted venerable brothers across the city
