Released
Get a Life
May 4 2001 (almost 24 years ago)Rating
70
Based on
6 reviews
- Director: João Canijo
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 55 m
- Countries: France, Portugal
- Companies: Madragoa Filmes, Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia, Gemini Films
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.
