The Luminous Life (2025)
Overview
It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.
Cast
Francisco Melo
Nicolau
Cécile Matignon
Chloé
Federica Balbi
Anna
Gemma Tria
Emma
Ângela Ramos
Matilde
Francisca Alarcão
Mariana
Andreia Alves
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