The Wolf's Lair

Catarina Mourão
2015-01-27

Families can now make sense of their past, reinterpret old memories and discover new truths.
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102 min

Every family has its secrets, the family of Portuguese filmmaker Mourão included. As the granddaughter of the well-known writer Tomaz de Figueiredo, she picks apart several of them in an intimate yet universally meaningful way. As such, her film also becomes a portrait of dictatorship and resistance and of the urge to create art.