Taprobana

APPROPIATE

2014 / 24min.

Rating6.1

Genres

Comedy

Synopsis

In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.

Directors

Gabriel Abrantes

Vimukthi Jayasundara

Actors

Édith Scob

Jani Zhao

Gabriel Abrantes

Joana Pais de Brito

Alexandre Melo

Natxo Checa

David Lasantha

Jõao Pedro Vale

Gonçalo Pena

Andreia Cabral

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