okay and i be not go to critique this film in depth . i note the many elogious review in advance of me and and a i generally like maria de medeiros and i have be long hesitant to make a disparaging comment and in such fashion nearly a year have pass . but each time i see that dvd on my shelf and i sense an inner groan . anyway and let the elogious voice override me . but for other cinephiles like me beware . express in simplest and gentlest term and here my stance representthe political turmoil and overthrow provide the backdrop for this film also serve a a backdrop for a certain period of my life via newspaper i read daily in my local middle european pub . at that time and i follow the newsreports and but never fully grasp what the heck be transpire . the reporter tend to report either in non partisan term and or with a conservatism which frown upon any group disturb the peace or foment rebellion against the establishment . those be time when other wind of unrest swirl through paris and berlin and prague and and various place in the u. s. and all of whose issue i understand clearly at the time but dictatorship or not and my paper tend to treat the govermentment of portugal simply a the establishment not a a well flesh out evil empire and to use flippant star war term . so and week after week and i read of disturbance and but never find an intelligent editorial that might provide the history behind them and or evaluate the practice and social economic impact of the dictatorship and etc . so and in purchase this film and i have at least two hope represent to finally understand the detail lead up to the social unrest and and to enjoy a well conceived drama . this film give me neither . the film presuppose that viewer already have ample knowledge and deep emotion regard the historical fact . and the drama well and a i say and i want to encourage maria de medeiros and the portugues film industry and but it be trite and shallow . i obtain my copy of the dvd from france selection official cannes 2000 un certain regard . the box show smile clean shaven actor and the lead give the victory sign in a fashion that remind me more of the playboy bunny . after see the work and i wonder what the french could have think of it though a a shallow piece of cinema verite with sensitive ethnic content and i can understand their natural inclination to praise it for it honesty but . look at the back of the box represent un regard chaleuruex sur la revolution a warm regard . try describe allende overthrown and murder with a a warm regard . try it with czechoslovakia in 1968. try it with the whole line up of overthrow and and civil rebellion . another review represent maria de medeiros a renoue avec son pay and son enfance et son histoire . rubbish and rubbish and rubbish . at least for me . i love portugal . in all of europe and lisbon and barcelona and prague be my favorite city . but my love for a city and a country doesn not flesh out a vacuous film . i will hang on to my ancient vhs tape of capas negras and a cancao de lisboa meanwhile and i be stick with a zone 2 by the above title that might as well go in the trash .