Foreign Land
Walter Salles' gripping road movie-cum-thriller is a resonant study of exile, nostalgia and homecoming.
When a young man's mother dies, he leaves São Paolo for his ancestral home in the Basque Country; financing his trip with what appears to be some petty smuggling, he eventually encounters another Brazilian, disenchanted by her life as a waitress in Lisbon. Very strikingly shot in black and white, Salles' gripping road movie-cum-thriller is a resonant study of exile, nostalgia and homecoming, blessed with an admirably ambivalent take on the relationship between the Old and New Worlds...
| Director | Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas |
| Cast | Fernanda Toress, Fernando Pinto |
| Country | Brazil |
| Year | 1995 |
| Running time | 100min |
| Certificate | 15 |
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