Women of Beira

Women of Beira/Mulheres da Beira marks Rino Lupo’s directorial debut at Invicta Film. The melodrama is in tune with the realism of its setting, the city of Arouca, where the film was shot, that work like a poetic combination where passion unwinds, culminating in a tragic end of Aninhas. In the work of Luis Pina, História do Cinema Português, he describes Rino Lupo has a filmmaker that “painted with light”, an observation that the audience picks up instantly when they come across with the rustic, bucolic and even idyllic imaginary of Women of Beira. It is an adaptation of the tale with the same name of Abel Botelho (1898).