Living Bad (2023)

5.6/10 124 min Drama

Overview

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

Cast

Nuno Lopes

Jaime

Filipa Areosa

Camila

Leonor Silveira

Elisa

Rafael Morais

Alex

Lia Carvalho

Graça

Beatriz Batarda

Judite

Leonor Vasconcelos

Júlia

Carolina Amaral

Alice

Anabela Moreira

Piedade

Rita Blanco

Sara

Madalena Almeida

Salomé

Cleia Almeida

Raquel

Vera Barreto

Ângela

Lourdes Norberto

(voice)

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