Andre Barbosa, Beatriz Torcato, Eurico Vieira

No one can live without love . . . By day, brooding, lonely Sergio works as a trash collector in the streets of Lisbon. By night, Sergio embarks on an increasingly intense odyssey of random, anonymou...( read more  read more... )s sexual encounters. Quickly, Sergio becomes fixated on a hot, young stranger and begins to retreat further and further into his dark dream life, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, love and obsession. In Portuguese with English Subtitles

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Unrated, 90 min.

Directed by: Andre Barbosa, Beatriz Torcato, Eurico Vieira, João Pedro Rodrigues, Ricardo Meneses

Release Date: January 1, 2000

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DVD Release Date: November 4, 2003

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  • December 24, 2008
    My Logline: A Dirty Little Slut with a Forbidden Big Crush. A great art house portrait of loneliness, squalor, and sexual desire. Great anonymous sex scenes and some truly great erotic cinematography very partial to the callipygian lead. (I'd recommend a jerk before you watch thi...( read more)s if you're ten percent the horndog that this main character is). There is very little dialogue but swimming pools of unspoken communication, tense as a hard-on and spread like petroleum jelly. The grungy filth is there though; this character is a garbage worker living in the streets, garbage warehouse, and rented rooms who steals from garbage bins for masturbatory articles of clothing and sneaks about his obsession's property. Don't read past the spoiler if you want to watch this. The problem with this film is the ambiguity of the pivotal point which causes the ending of the final act. It's not the (chronologically) non-linear editing of the scenes that bothers me, but the story; BIG SPOILER - I dislike the options of scenarios that are offered regarding the outcome of the capture and rape. Problem: in one scenario (the first scene actually) the guy is lovin Sergio pounding him in the kinky gear (when I first saw it, I didn't know it was non-consensual; I thought it was just some fetish stuff as both parties looked to be having intense pleasure.). In the other, Sergio just drags the guy out to street and leaves him somewhere, the only bit of action being Sergio dry humping him (without the zipper on the latex suit open) whilst securing his bonds. I want to know if Sergio degrades into the animalistic swine he is at the conclusion of the film because he has totally fulfilled his fantasy or he's completely pitifully failed at his attempt. Maybe the point is that both would lead to the ending's savage lack of humanity and loss of identity; that's pretty common of art house, but had I wrote it, I would have definitively picked one and explored THAT subsequent theory instead. Me myself, would be better that he got the more glorified version and fell into such utter despair that he no longer needs to function as a human so reverts to a primordial state, no longer able to exist in the human context, as opposed to failing at such a thing, stooping so low and doing something so primal, causes a human to lose their humanity (this answer is just flatter and more common sense as opposed to revealing like my choice).
    ADDED NOTE NON-SPOILER
    movie is loaded with sexually explicit scenes, plenty of nudity - lots of cok and arse, with some hot sucking and unusual masturbation.

    "So Fucked Up" highlight: digging through trash for masturbatory material and then using it in combo with some auto-erotic asphyxiation
  • August 16, 2006
    Makes me PROUD of portuguese Cinema!
  • November 4, 2009
    Una joya de arte, totalmente inesperada!
  • November 28, 2008
    I was initially intrigued by the description of this movie, not realizing that the description was about half as long as the script. Not enough hot gay sex to be pornographic and not enough story to be an entertainment, this is basically the story about a trash collector who fuc...( read more)ks anything that moves and acts like a dog. If that sounds appealing to you, go for it. I found it the cinematic equivalent of watching paint dry. I will say this, the film has some pretty good cinematography, for what that's worth.
  • September 1, 2008
    Garbage collector slash kinky stalking sexoholic. There it is. This story got real murky towards the end. Listening to the commentary from the director I guess we were to assume that it was a fantasy? Who knows. Ricardo Meneses was a real find for the director and I am so glad he...( read more) did. What a beauty he is! Wow! And what a beauty the lower member of him is. He could stalk me anytime. Thus the reason for the (3) star rating.
  • May 28, 2008
    Trata-se da história absurda de um gari que vaga pelas ruas de Lisboa em busca de sexo casual com homens estranhos. Isso seria até um roteiro quase normal, não fosse a peculiaridade de o tal gari ter complexo de cachorro e sair latindo, rosnando e urinando em hidrantes.

    Meu fa...( read more)ro (duh!) para a modernidade indica que a idéia do filme era abordar um desejo animal inerente ao ser-humano, que age instintivamente em busca de prazer sexual. Parece profundo, né?

    No entanto, não é bem assim que a coisa funciona no filme. Na verdade, essa película (duh! - de novo) é um dos grandes desafios do mundo pós-moderno. Depois de 90 minutos, que parecem durar um semestre, resta o grande questionamento do filme: what the fuck? Não há história e não há diálogos. O que há é um longo filme pornô fetichista (beirando o cômico em algumas passagens) softcore com pretensões artísticas aparentemente elevadas. Ficaria bem melhor no gênero pornô explícito. Ou num clipe do Mika, sei lá.

    Só não leva cotação mínima porque o protagonista é errrr... talentoso! - como se pode depreender pela capa do filme.
  • October 8, 2007
    Trash collectors really scare me now!
  • May 1, 2007
    I have seen the movie in TV ARTE and i was completely surprised to see it in TV, coz it is very sexy!
  • March 4, 2007
    definitely a weird movie. O Fantasma chronicles a young trash collector's descent into a world of increasingly bizarre sexual encounters. Sergio (Ricardo Meneses) spends his days living in a run-down rented room, engaging in anonymous sex and trying to rebuff the advances of his ...( read more)co-worker Fatima (Beatriz Torcato). Unfulfilled by his daily sexcapades, Sergio finally gets turned on by a Tom of Finland-esque motorcyclist (Andre Barbosa), whose physical beauty becomes the source of Sergio's obsession. Sergio stalks him, eventually donning bondage gear and making the motorcyclist his love prisoner. After having his brutish way with his comely captive, Sergio vanishes into the night and prowls the city's garbage dumps in a phantasmic odyssey of sexual dysfunction and cruelty. ~ Rebecca Flint,
  • December 10, 2006
    Pretty bad, pretty terrible, pretty horrible. Do I need to say anymore then that?

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