“The Miracle Club”

Three friends living in a small Irish village in 1967 win a talent contest that will allow them to leave the country for the first time and go with the local priest to Lourdes. At the last minute, the daughter of a recently deceased friend joins the tour, coming from the United States for her mother’s funeral, where she went when she was still young, without having heard from anyone since. Your presence will cause unrest among them and make the tragic events of the past that were never forgotten even more vivid. Directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, The miracle club It is a simple, sincere and emotional (but never sentimental) film about resentment, guilt, forgiveness, the different ways of understanding faith and the possibility of miracles, starring Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, Laura Linney and the young Agnes O’Casey plus four good reasons to watch it.

“Where is Pessoa?”

Leonor Areal discovered, in an anonymous film from 1913 that records the departure of a Sunday concert at the Teatro da República (the São Carlos renamed by the aforementioned after October 5), what will be the only moving cinematographic images of Fernando Pessoa . a few brief seconds in which he appears accompanied by his aunt Anica. Where is Pessoa? would make a good short film, but Leonor Areal “stretches” this “essay film” to one hour, hunting, from the same images, contemporaries of the poet linked to the arts and letters who would have gone to that concert and would have appeared in the same images. Some are there, others – quite a few – remain in the field of conjectures and assumptions (there is at least one clearly erroneous identification, the second, by the great António Silva), and the result is repetitive and forced.

“The sweet east coast”

First film as director of cinematographer Sean Price Williams, known for his work in cinema. independent with names like Abel Ferrara, Sean Baker or the Safdie brothers. Lilian (Talia Ryder), a girl from South Carolina, arrives in Washington on a senior trip in high school, and after an incident in a bar, she finds herself involved in strange adventures with a group of ridiculous and clumsy “antifa” young people. , a white supremacist college professor in love with Edgar Allan Poe or a couple of flamboyant black directors who are making a low-budget historical film. The sweet east coast It is so anarchic and vague in its form, narrative and purposes – apart from its “alternative” and visually exhibitionist pose – that one would say that Williams did not film a finished script, but rather a first draft.

“Gru – The 4 ill-disposed”

When Gru, his family (which now includes a baby, Gru Junior) and the trio of loyal Minimos formed by Stuart, Kevin and Bob have to hide in an Anti-Villain League safe house, while being hunted by evil. Maxime Le Mal (voice of Will Ferrell), alias Cockroach Man, the mutant and irascible picketing villain of this fourth film of this animated series, the remaining Minimums are sent to the headquarters of said organization. Where comes the idea of ​​subjecting five of them to a scientific experiment that will give them superpowers, namely: elasticity, flight, laser vision, strength and eating walls and chewing bombs. And so the Mega Minimums appear, new rivals to traditional superheroes, but immensely and comically clumsy. Gru – The Badly Disposed 4 It was chosen by Observador as film of the week and you can read the review here.