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Living On (1976)

Living On poster
Original title
Continuar a Viver ou Os Índios da Meia-Praia
Directed by
António da Cunha Telles
Genre
documentary film
Country
Portugal
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary mixing ethnographic observation with militant cinema. It looks at the lives of a community in Lagos, Portugal, in the mid-1970s.

observationalcontemplativeearnestgroundedunhurriedpoliticalinformative

What happens

Continuar a Viver ou Os Índios da Meia-Praia (1976) é um documentário português de longa-metragem de António da Cunha Teles. A obra é um misto de filme etnográfico e de cinema militante, prática corrente no cinema português da década de setenta. Estreia em Lagos no cinema Império a 25 de Abril de 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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