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Driven by his struggle against the illness that would ultimately prove fatal, Monteiro fervently devoted himself to his deeply personal last work, a musically structured meditation on spirituality and desire in which he heroically cast himself in the lead role as an eccentric libertine drifting wide-eyed through a sun-drenched Lisbon. A consciously terminal film, Come and Go offers a poetic summation of Monteiro’s fascination with the body as the most irreverent and mysterious of temples, staging a series of playfully austere encounters between the visibly infirm and prematurely aged director and the women with whom he engages in erotic, linguistic and theological debates.
Movie rating: 6.9 / 10 (485)
Directed by: João César Monteiro
Writer credits: João César Monteiro
Cast: João César Monteiro - Rita Pereira Marques - Joaquina Chicau - Manuela de Freitas - Ligia Soares
AKA: Come and Go, Coming and Going
