The Portuguese have a word for it: saudade - a yearning for something in the past or future, which is often out of reach. In Dying to Go Home, which receives its world premiere at San Sebastián, it affects a ghost, aka Manuel Espiritu Santo (the excellent Portuguese actor Diogo Infante), a Portuguese immigrant in Holland until his untimely death. Invisible, inaudible and immaterial, he struggles in vain to have his sister take his ashes back to his native land for him to find eternal peace. But his sister can't get his ashes through customs, a golf-course has been built over the local cemetery, and Manuel begins to get a life as a dead man.
Written by the British Jennifer Field and Portugal's Carlos da Silva, the film marks Da Silva's feature film debut in a two-handed direction. 'We decided to direct together because we knew each other. I'm basically a filmmaker while Carlos' profession is more story-telling. Also, since the film is spoken in Dutch and Portuguese, it would have been difficult for one person to direct,' says co-director George Sluizer, who dubs the film a 'nostalgic' comedy.
'The Vanishing and Crimetime were my Hyde films, Dying to Go Home is more in a Jekyll mode,' he quips.
Prod co: Taiga Films (Netherlands), Europa 7 (Portugal), Spice Factory (UK)
Prod: George Sluizer, Carlos da Silva
Dir: George Sluizer, Carlos da Silva
Guión(Scr): Carlos da Silva, Jennifer Field
Foto (Ph): Theo Bierkens
Art dir (Prod des): Phillip Graff
Mus: Henny Vrienten
Mont (Ed): Mario Steenbergen
Ints (Cast): Diogo Infante, Maria d'Aires, Huub Stapel, Jack Wouterse
Ventas (Intīl sales): contact MGS Film
Duración (Running time): 102 min
Programación (screening): 19 Sep, 19.00 Principal; 20 Sep, 10.00, Principal; 20 Sep, 18.30. Astoria 1, 21 Sep, 16.00 Principe 4.
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