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May 11, 2023 · Bad Living: Directed by João Canijo. With Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Madalena Almeida, Cleia Almeida. Follows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an "old and irresolvable conflict," with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.
Apr 27, 2017 · Fátima: Directed by João Canijo. With Rita Blanco, Anabela Moreira, Cleia Almeida, Vera Barreto. The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.
Feb 23, 2023 · João Canijo: I wanted to make two films with the same themes. The stories of each film are set in the same space and take place at the same time. The secondary protagonists of the first film are the main protagonists of the second, and vice versa. The titles Bad Living and Living Bad are a mirror of this
Feb 22, 2023 · Somewhere in the idyllic Portuguese countryside sits a quaint but stunning hotel, which is the setting for Bad Living (Mal viver), the first half of João Canijo’s incredible diptych, in which he investigates and interrogates a variety of themes, ranging from femininity to the most intricate details that make us human, and the extent to which ...
Feb 24, 2023 · In João Canijo’s Berlinale competition film Bad Living, long shots are composed so precisely that their motivations frequently don’t become clear for minutes — often when protagonist Piedade (Anabela Moreira) appears in a mirror or at the margins of a doorway, again hearing her family discuss her lack of stability.
Apr 24, 2023 · interview: João Canijo film profile] and Living Bad [+ see also: film review trailer interview: João Canijo film profile], a Portuguese-French co-production helmed by João Canijo. According to the jury statement, it was deemed worthy of the prize “for its profoundness and intensity, particularly on the level of its cinematic execution.
Feb 23, 2023 · Interview: João Canijo • Director of Bad Living and Living Bad "Mothers can make the life of their daughters a misery" BERLINALE 2023: We talked to the Portuguese director about hotels that can feel like prisons and the unbearable weight of family
