Four friends (3 male & 1 female) escape Lisbon one sunny weekend and head to a luxurious villa in the remote countryside. This quartet with their ambiguous sexualities have been friends for the past decade held together by a rather tenuous past. They had all been lovers of the mysterious David and when he suddenly phones out of the blue that he is going to pay them a surprise visit, it is a cue for all of them to start their overly melodramatic pasts with the man who evidently broke all their hearts for totally different reasons.
It’s been 10 years since he disappeared from their lives but none of them had ever recovered sufficiently to either forget him and move on with lives.
At a pace akin to watching paint dry the four of them, one by one, relive their ‘David story’ with each of them believing that they were his one true love. Joana (Oceana Basílio) was pregnant with his baby when he left. She is now (sort of) dating Francisco (Nuno Pardal)and trying to have a baby with him even though as he never technically broke up with David, he believes he will be the one to carry on with him again when he appears.
Moody Simáo (Ricardo Barbosa) is currently writing his latest movie which is based on all their lives, something he has not shared with his current bed partner the romantic Vasco (Ricardo Pereira). Both of them had been David’s boyfriend at one time or another and Simáo had broken up with him as he couldn’t support David’s dream to be a parent. Meanwhile conflicted Vasco has a married man waiting back for him in Lisbon, but is still happy enough you have sex with the local ‘straight’ man who delivers food to the villa.
In this rather annoying drama written and directed by Vicente Alves do Ó it is nigh on impossible to relate to any of these self absorbed characters. The fact we also end up waiting until the final credits roll for the eventual arrival (or not!) of David makes it all even more exasperating
They all seemed to have been badly burned, but it was not by the sun however.
Labels: 2019, drama, Portuguese
