Mal Viver
Joao Canijo / PT, FR, 2023 / 127 min.
As a child, he would visit with his parents; as an adult, director João Canijo returned. To the hotel close to Porto in Portugal where he sets this oppressive story of three generations of mothers and daughters who drive one another to distraction.
If you thought the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s Stephen King adaptation The Shining is the embodiment of malevolence, you probably haven’t checked into the Portuguese hotel that features in Mal Viver. What makes a stay here a living hell though is not supernatural but very, very human.
In the sequel to the film, with the mirror title Viver Mal, it will become clear that the hotel's clientele is also struggling with major intergenerational conflicts.
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Director
Joao Canijo
Production year
2023
Country
PT, FR
Original title
Mal Viver
Length
127 min.
Language
Portuguese
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Previously Unreleased
Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, Eye Filmmuseum thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands.
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