John Wayne's Hips
Aug 01, 2010
(João César Monteiro, Portugal, 1997, 35mm, 148 min)
After a lengthy rehearsal of a Biblical play (by Swedish playwright August Strindberg), João de Deus, the play's director, finds Henrique, the actor portraying God, asleep in a boat that is part of the scenery. Inspired by a dream of Henrique's, the two embark on an odyssey to the Arctic in which the pair shares a vision of John Wayne wonderfully swinging his hips at the North Pole. And so begins the strange, spiritual and philosophical journey of João and Henrique…