Encounters
Director Pierre-Marie Goulet
Countries Portugal, France
Duration 105 min
Synopsis
1957: a group of peasants from Peroguarda, in the Alentejo, travels to sing in Oporto. The poet António Reis, director to be of “Trás-os-Montes”, listens to their chants. Seduced by them, he heads to Peroguarda with a tape recorder. 1959: Michel Giacometti, a musicologist of Corsican descendance, starts a 30-year research project. He soon discovers Peroguarda. 1965: in Oporto, the young poet Manuel António Pina and other aspiring young poets elect António Reis as their major reference. 1966: filmmaker Paulo Rocha shoots his second feature film (“Mudar de Vida”) at Furadouro, setting the film’s plot amidst the fishermen that fascinated him during his childhood. These and other people are part of an informal tribe whose members recognize each other when they meet.
1957: a group of peasants from Peroguarda, in the Alentejo, travels to sing in Oporto. The poet António Reis, director to be of “Trás-os-Montes”, listens to their chants. Seduced by them, he heads to Peroguarda with a tape recorder. 1959: Michel Giacometti, a musicologist of Corsican descendance, starts a 30-year research project. He soon discovers Peroguarda. 1965: in Oporto, the young poet Manuel António Pina and other aspiring young poets elect António Reis as their major reference. 1966: filmmaker Paulo Rocha shoots his second feature film (“Mudar de Vida”) at Furadouro, setting the film’s plot amidst the fishermen that fascinated him during his childhood. These and other people are part of an informal tribe whose members recognize each other when they meet.