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" . .once upon a time
there was a son who
wanted to have a father
who wanted to have a son . ."

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, (played by José Afonso Pimentel) the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father (played by João Lagarto) is like a dream come true. It's a time for them to become re-acquainted and it's also a time for his first girlfriend and annoying questions to his father about love and sex.

'But dreams are sometimes just a way to avoid facing reality...'

In the first hour of the film, we see 13 year old Filipe on holiday in the Azores, with just his father. The man is trying to get to know the boy, who harbors a severe grudge for the nature of their non-relationship. Eventually, it becomes clear that the man is terminally ill.

Suddenly, it becomes evident that the whole story to this point is a fabrication of the boys imagination. In school he claims in an essay that his lawyer father is dead, but we then see the all the same actors in Lisbon who were the characters in Filipe's Azores odyssey, all living rather meaningless and routine lives. Filipe's estrangement from his father is obviously permanent and the boy blames his mother for not having had an abortion which would have spared him from his loneliness and misery. This is a poignant and touching film from Portuguese director Luís Filipe Rocha and as noted in the above photo, José Afonso Pimentel (Filipe) has become quite the stunning young man.

Film Information: 'Adeus, pai' (Good-bye Father)

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Director: Luís Filipe Rocha
Writer: Luís Filipe Rocha
Cast, Crew & Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 85 min
Spoken Language: Portuguese
Subtitled in: English

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