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Fantasporto 2023 | Festival Catalogue

This is the official catalogue of the 43nd Oporto International Film Festival. Considered one of the best 10 independent film festivals in the world by Tripper and one of the 3 biggest and most important Fantasy festivals in the World.

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DARKLANDS

JULIAN RICHARDS, 85’ – 1996 (G.B.)

A FORÇA DOS RITUAIS PAGÃOS CELTAS

PERDURA NA MEMÓRIA DO PAÍS DE GALES.

COM AS MINAS A FECHAR E O DESEMPREGO

A CRESCER, UM JORNALISTA, FRAZER,

ENVOLVE-SE COM UMA ESTAGIÁRIA

DO SEU JORNAL CUJO IRMÃO TINHA SIDO MORTO

EM CIRCUNSTÂNCIAS ESTRANHAS.

As investigações do caso levam-no a suspeitar de um industrial com

ambições políticas. Atraído para um conjunto de rituais pagãos,

participa num deles. Entre os actores do filme está Jon Finch que

actuou em “Frenzy” de Hitchcock e mais tarde em “Kingdom of

Heaven” de Ridley Scott.

No Fantasporto, “Darklands” foi Prémio da Crítica em 1997, tendo

vencido também o de Melhor Argumento e Prémio Especial do

Júri de Cinema Fantástico.

Ganha ainda o Melhor Filme no Festival of Fantastic Films no Reino

Unido e o Silver Award no WorldFest Houston nos EUA.

The power of Celtic pagan rituals endures in the memory of Wales. With

mines closing and unemployment rising, a journalist named Frazer becomes

involved with an intern from his newspaper whose brother had

died under strange circumstances. His investigation leads him to suspect

an industrialist with political ambitions. Drawn into a series of pagan

rituals, he participates in one of them. Among the cast of the film

is Jon Finch, who starred in Hitchcock’s “Frenzy” and later in Ridley

Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven.”

At Fantasporto, “Darklands” won the Critics’ Award in 1997, as well

as Best Screenplay and Special Jury Prize for Fantastic Cinema. It also

won Best Film at the Festival of Fantastic Films in the UK and the

Silver Award at WorldFest Houston in the USA.

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