The Luminous Life (2025)
It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.
Director: João Rosas
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Francisco Melo as Nicolau |
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Cécile Matignon as Chloé |
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Margarida Dias as Inês |
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Federica Balbi as Anna |
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Gemma Tria as Emma |
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Ângela Ramos as Matilde |
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Francisca Alarcão as Mariana |
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Andreia Alves as Andreia |
| Directing | João Rosas | Director |
| Camera | Paulo Menezes | Director of Photography |
| Writing | João Rosas | Writer |
| Sound | Olivier Blanc | Sound |
| Editing | Luís Miguel Correia | Editor |
| Production | Pedro Borges | Producer |
| Art | Cláudia Lopes Costa | Art Direction |
| Production | François d'Artemare | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Elsa Ferreira | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Laure Arto | Sound Mixer |
| Directing | André Silva Santos | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Bruno Lourenço | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Luís Nunes | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | André Silva Santos | Assistant Director |
