Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'

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Released January 01, 2008

Overview

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee/player in the finished film). Paulo "Miller" is known for taking a dangerous jump into the Alva from a bridge each year during carnival, but what this film is about is, in keeping with the free-roving feature, much less the subject himself than Gomes and co.'s inability to pin him down; not only does he not do his famous jump during this year's carnival, but an ostensible technical/audio failure (as with the feature, it's very difficult to say how much of this film is "fact," how much invented) during Gomes's initial on-camera meeting with Paulo "Miller" leads to five minutes of lip-readers attempting to decipher their conversation.

Runtime

0h 22m


Origin Country

Portugal


Original Language

Portuguese


Original Title

Carnaval: à procura de Paulo Moleiro


Status

Released


Production Countries

  • Portugal

Spoken Languages

  • Português (Portuguese)

Production Companies

  • logo for O Som e a Fúria

    O Som e a Fúria

    Portugal

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