Jake (Yelchin) and Mati (Lucas) are two outsiders in the Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection.
He’s an American loner exiled from his family; she’s a French student abroad with her professor lover. One day they see each other from a distance at an archeological site and then again at a train station and in a café, where Jake works up the courage to speak to Mati for the first time. So they embark on a night of carefree intimacy.
This experience is looked at years later using fragments from Mati and Jake’s lives apart, both of them still haunted by the powerful moments they shared. Working backward and forwards with time, and alternating a narrow and wide visual canvas, Porto reveals the depths of a surprising encounter, eventually settling into the one unforgettable night when Mati and Jake chanced upon feelings of love and passion that they never thought were possible.
Porto
Porto
Genre
Drama, Romance
Director
Gabe Klinger
Run time
1h 16min
Cast
Anton Yelchin, Lucie Lucas, Paulo Calatré
Genre
Drama, Romance
Director
Gabe Klinger
Run time
1h 16min
Cast
Anton Yelchin, Lucie Lucas, Paulo Calatré
Jake (Yelchin) and Mati (Lucas) are two outsiders in the Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection.
He’s an American loner exiled from his family; she’s a French student abroad with her professor lover. One day they see each other from a distance at an archeological site and then again at a train station and in a café, where Jake works up the courage to speak to Mati for the first time. So they embark on a night of carefree intimacy.
This experience is looked at years later using fragments from Mati and Jake’s lives apart, both of them still haunted by the powerful moments they shared. Working backward and forwards with time, and alternating a narrow and wide visual canvas, Porto reveals the depths of a surprising encounter, eventually settling into the one unforgettable night when Mati and Jake chanced upon feelings of love and passion that they never thought were possible.
He’s an American loner exiled from his family; she’s a French student abroad with her professor lover. One day they see each other from a distance at an archeological site and then again at a train station and in a café, where Jake works up the courage to speak to Mati for the first time. So they embark on a night of carefree intimacy.
This experience is looked at years later using fragments from Mati and Jake’s lives apart, both of them still haunted by the powerful moments they shared. Working backward and forwards with time, and alternating a narrow and wide visual canvas, Porto reveals the depths of a surprising encounter, eventually settling into the one unforgettable night when Mati and Jake chanced upon feelings of love and passion that they never thought were possible.
Info
Rating
(none)
Production year
2016
Global distributor
New Europe Film Sales
Local distributor
Tallinnfilm OÜ
In cinema
11/11/2016