“At the Same Time that We’re Fighting for our Lives, We Are Also Agents of Exploitation, of Domination, of violence”: Pedro Pinho on his Cannes-Premiering I Only Rest In The Storm
Pedro Pinho’s Cannes-premiering I Only Rest In The Storm follows Sergio, a naive do-gooder who, as the film’s title implies, finds inner peace in places of chaos. In this case it’s the hurly-burly of Guinea-Bissau, where the Portuguese environmental engineer has been hired to produce an impact report that will pave the way for a road-building project to commence. There he meets two charismatic characters, party-loving besties Diara and Guillermhe, the former a native, the latter a Black Brazilian expat. And thus begins a bizarre triangle of love-hate attraction – fueled by a colonialist past, a capitalist present, and an […] The post “At the Same Time that We’re Fighting for our Lives, We Are Also Agents of Exploitation, of Domination, of violence”: Pedro Pinho on his Cannes-Premiering I Only Rest In The Storm first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
Pedro Pinho’s Cannes-premiering I Only Rest In The Storm follows Sergio, a naive do-gooder who, as the film’s title implies, finds inner peace in places of chaos. In this case it’s the hurly-burly of Guinea-Bissau, where the Portuguese environmental engineer has been hired to produce an impact report that will pave the way for a road-building project to commence. There he meets two charismatic characters, party-loving besties Diara and Guillermhe, the former a native, the latter a Black Brazilian expat. And thus begins a bizarre triangle of love-hate attraction – fueled by a colonialist past, a capitalist present, and an […] The post “At the Same Time that We’re Fighting for our Lives, We Are Also Agents of Exploitation, of Domination, of violence”: Pedro Pinho on his Cannes-Premiering I Only Rest In The Storm first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
