O VENTO ASSOBIANDO NAS GRUAS

Seventeen years after her last feature film, Swiss-born and Portuguese-adopted filmmaker Jeanne Waltz adapts the novel by the great Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge (The Wind Whistling in the Cranes), set in the 1990s. Following the death of her grandmother, young Milene discovers a Black Cape Verdean family living in her white family’s canning factory – most notably Antonino, a widowed crane operator with three children – whom she falls in love with while navigating her own journey to independence. The spontaneity and the unprejudiced mindset of this girl, portrayed magnificently by Rita Cabaço (Rage), clash with preconceived notions of the other in a not-so-distant setting: the Algarve during the real-estate boom and gentrification, rife with racism and classism, where, despite the 1974 revolution everything changed to remain the same: the rich are still rich and the poor are still poor.