
The Northern Land
Adaptation of the romance by Agustina Bessa-Luís.
This is the story of Emília de Sousa, the greatest actress on the Portuguese stage at the end of the XIX century, who abandoned her career for several years to marry the rich Madeiran Gaspar de Barros and become the Baroness Madalena do Mar. She was a beautiful as Sissi, the Empress of Austria, with who she socialised in the winter of 1860/61, and she decided to construct a mystery that lasted for four generations and over a century. What does it matter if some gentleman sleeps with a woman? But when someone throws themselves into the sea, that raises several different possibilities.
Might this be love, or just the ashamed gesture of the sublime?
Awards
Critics Honours at Rome Film Festival 2008
Festivals
46th New York Film Festival 2008
Festival do Rio 2008
Director
João Botelho
Drama/Romance
122’
Colour
2009
Title
The Northern Land, 2009
A Corte do Norte
Producer
Filmes de Fundo
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