I'm not a film critic, but I love watching movies, and I really like to try to keep an eye on what the Portuguese cinema has to offer once in a while (myself being Portuguese as well). Maybe I'm just unlucky regarding the portuguese movies I get to watch, but I have to admit I'm usually not the biggest fan of those I see... Two blatant examples of that are "Capitão Falcão" and "Linhas de Sangue"... I hated both :) ...

But here the painting is different: I have the habit of giving each film a 1-to-5 score, which I keep on a notepad, and last tuesday (September 3rd), after the preview screening held at the UCI cinemas in Lisbon, I gave my first "5" ever (special reference here to "La Cage Dorée", also a "5", but only partially portuguese)... And how pleased was I to give that score :)...

I loved the beauty, the great spirit, the way it revisited the past, the sometimes blatant humour, as well as the other times very well camouflaged one, and I absolutely loved the so well printed emotion in such a genuine work...

CONGRATULATIONS!! PARABÉNS!! :)