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The main protagonist, an American doctor (Paul McIsaac) in his middle years, exiled voluntarily in Lisbon, Portugal, is haunted by bitter memories and disgust for the world and himself - he drowns his bitterness in alcohol and cynicism amidst an unfriendly and poor industrial suburb of the city, where the people hate Americans as the doctor hates himself and his surroundings. The monotonous life of a man without a future is interrupted by the arrival of his son (Vincent Gallo) whom he’d never met and who set out to find his father after his mother's death. Will the encounter of two men with disturbed experiences lead to a change in their lives? /// Kramer focuses more on the atmosphere that permeates the locations and the plot than on the story: the dirty and poor Lisbon with its already strong genius loci (similar to In the White City by A. Tanner in many ways) is transformed by the director and cinematographer into a symbolic edge of the world, the end of all expectations of a bitter individual who chooses his place of defeat in mournful melancholy. The paralyzing fluidity of the foreign environment and aimlessness envelop the actions of the main character, whose only chance is the element of fundamental foreignness towards the present and a reminder of the past, the time when he could still live. The return of the lost son - a happy ending? /// In addition, Kramer masterfully disrupts the otherwise coldly realistic flow with surprising and personal sequences, breaking down the barrier between the viewer and fiction and reality.
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