比阿特丽斯·巴塔尔达

在葡萄牙的北岸，五个不同世代的女人正共同努力经营着她们的家族酒店，试图将它从一个无可避免的衰败中解救出来。与此同时，这个家庭深陷在一个长久无法解决的矛盾之中：她们都学不会爱自己的女儿，也因此她们都不懂要如何当一个母亲。外孙女Salomé（MadalenaAlmeida饰）的突然到来搅乱了整个局面，所有的旧伤口都被撕开，潜在与沉积的怨恨都浮出了水面。于是，她的母亲Piedade（AnabelaMoreira饰）作出了一个非常大胆的决定。本作讲述的是酒店经营者一家的故事，入围第73届柏林电影节主竞赛单元。其姊妹电影《ViverMal》则是聚焦于到访酒店的客人，入围同一届的奇遇单元。

Fivewomenarerunninganoldhotelandtryingtosaveitfrominexorabledecay.Guestsarriveoverthecourseofaweekend:acouplebearsthewoundsofalong-termmisunderstanding;adomineeringmotherinterferesinherdaughter’srelationship;twogirlstrytosavetheirownlovestoryinthefaceofoppositionfromapossessivemother.ViverMalisthereverseshotofMalViver,whichisscreeningintheCompetition:here,JoãoCanijorevealseverythingthatwasfloatinginthedepthoffieldinthisfilm’smirrorimage.Realitybecomestheintertwiningandmultiplicationofdifferentpointsofview;theintersectionbetweenwhatcanbeseenandwhattheeyemisses.Likeaplayoflightreflections,ViverMalisMalViverinanotherdimension.Theimageisdistorted,butatthesametimeseeksanewdefinitionbyrelaunchingitselfintoinfinity.

Drowning in debt, unemployed boxer Jorge is on the verge of losing his young son and his Brazilian wife. He is one of shocking amounts of Portuguese families and companies unable to repay their loans in the time of European troika bailout measures. Jorge needs to pay off his debts and convince his unhappy wife to not leave Portugal to make a living. Due to his intimidating physique, Jorge must reluctantly accept a job with a collection agency which drags him into a world of violence and crime...

2019 年 10 月，诺福克郡（英国）大雅茅斯。英国脱欧前三个月。数百名葡萄牙移民涌入城镇，在当地的火鸡工厂寻找工作。大雅茅斯曾经是英国工人阶级最喜欢的度假胜地，如今已成为回声它昔日的辉煌，英国失业率最高的地方之一。工厂利用海滨众多破旧的旅馆来安置来自葡萄牙和东欧的季节性工人。他们做的工作没人Tânia（也被称为葡萄牙人之母），曾是这些家禽厂的工人，现在嫁给了一家英国旅馆老板。她是葡萄牙工人的完美调解人，但梦想成为英国公民并离开这里将她丈夫废弃的旅馆改造成翻新过的养老院，背后是肮脏的生意。但她最新一批移民在圣诞节期间的到来引发了一系列事件，扰乱了她动荡的生活。

The story revolves around Luisa Palmeira, born in France from Portuguese immigrants. In 1979, Luisa is eight years old. Almost a grown-up in the eyes of her illiterate mother, she remains just a little girl to her hard-drinking father. One day, he trusts her with a heavy secret he suffers from a serious illness. But she refuses to believe him and thinks instead that he is hiding something else from her…