The Last Time I Saw Macao
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The Last Time I Saw Macao
A Film by João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata
2012 - France/Portugal - Drama - DCP - 1.85 - 82 min.
with João Pedro Rodrigues , Cindy Scrash & João Rui Guerra da Mata
Languages: English , Portuguese , Cantonese
Produced by João Figueiras , Daniel Chabannes de Sars & Corentin Dong-jin Sénéchal
Thirty years later I'm on my way to Macao where I haven't been since I was a child. I got an e-mail, in Lisbon, from Candy, a friend I hadn't heard from in ages. She told me that she had been involved yet again with the wrong men and asked me to go to Macao where "strange and scary things" were happening. Tired, after a long flight, I'm approaching Macao aboard the jetfoil which will take me back to the happiest time in my life.
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