Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'
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A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee/player in the finished film). Paulo "Miller" is known for taking a dangerous jump into the Alva from a bridge each year during carnival, but what this film is about is, in keeping with the free-roving feature, much less the subject himself than Gomes and co.'s inability to pin him down; not only does he not do his famous jump during this year's carnival, but an ostensible technical/audio failure (as with the feature, it's very difficult to say how much of this film is "fact," how much invented) during Gomes's initial on-camera meeting with Paulo "Miller" leads to five minutes of lip-readers attempting to decipher their conversation.
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Cast
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Raquel Bernardo
Ana Cristina Ferreira
Sandro Aguilar
Also in
Sara F.
Telmo Churro
Known for
Tabu
Miguel Gomes
Known for
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Luís Urbano
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Demain?
Paulo Moleiro
Also in
Our Beloved Month of August
Lisa Persson
Vasco Pimentel
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Tabu
Vazante
Armanda Carvalho
Bruno Lourenço
Miguel Gomes Director · Lisa Persson Cinematographer Telmo Churro Editor
First release January 1, 2008 · Produced in Portugal · Original title Carnaval: à procura de Paulo Moleiro
Production
O Som e a Fúria
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Portugal
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Original title
Carnaval: à procura de Paulo Moleiro
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Portugal · January 1, 2008
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No release date listed for United States.
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