- Summary: A wonderfully mysterious, shape-shifting feature from celebrated filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, The Last Time I Saw Macao is a detective tale that blends film noir, documentary footage and personal travelogue to intoxicating effect. [Cinema Guild]
- Director: João Pedro Rodrigues
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Crime, Musical
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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80The effort is commendable and the complicated emotions of the piece (for a place and a people) come through loud and clear. To paraphrase the great Ms. Russell, the movie has the power to make you laugh and the power to break your heart in half.
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Sep 10, 201375The essayistic remembrances provide the filmmakers with a brilliant exit strategy when the noir business has nowhere to go but in circles.
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75As a ruminative travelogue-cum-dissertation, Rodrigues and Guerra Da Mata’s film is often haunting, and its portentous and mournful atmospherics ultimately help compensate for the nagging impression that it’s a work almost too personal for an outside viewer to fully penetrate.
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60A sly, amusing if underconceptulized and needlessly elliptical inquiry into truth, memory and appearances.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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