Living Bad

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Nuno Lopes as Jaime
• Filipa Areosa as Camila
• Leonor Silveira as Elisa
• Rafael Morais as Alex
• Lia Carvalho as Graça
• Beatriz Batarda as Judite
• Carolina Amaral as Alice
• Leonor Vasconselos as Julia
• Anabela Moreira as Piedade
• Rita Blanco as Sara
• Madalena Almeida as Salome
• Cleia Almeida as Raquel
• Vera Barreto as Angela

Storyline:

A family run hote in Ofir (municipality of Esposende), by the northern shore of Portugal, gets three families as its guests over the weekend. First is a man, who is torn between his wife and his mother. Second is a mother, who is enamoured with her daughter’s suitor, so she encourages her marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Third is also a mother, who wants to live her life through her daughter, so she is making her decisions. These three families are at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

About Movie:

Living Bad (Portuguese: Viver Mal) is a Portuguese-French drama film directed by João Canijo. For his screenplay about the hotel guests, he was inspired by motifs from three plays by August Strindberg. Starring Nuno Lopes and Leonor Silveira.

The film was shot over a 12-week period in early 2021 at the Hotel Parque do Rio in Praia de Ofir.

It was selected in Encounter at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 23 February 2023. The film was also featured in the list of Teddy Award.

At the same time, the director has made another film, Bad Living, in which the focus is on family running the hotel. Bad Living has also been selected at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in Competition.