2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata’s A última vez que vi Macau

Gist: Guerra da Mata and Rodrigues have collaborated on two 20-minute shorts in the last five years, and this new film, titled ‘The Last Time I Saw Macau‘ in English, will be their first feature-length project. Here, the two Portuguese filmmakers turn their gaze to Macau, a colony of Portugal until it was handed over to the People’s Republic of China at the end of the 20th century. The film was born as a documentary, but “may end up as an adventure movie”, yet it should still be heavily biographical.

Prediction: João Pedro Rodrigues’ last two films have premiered at Cannes; Two Drifters played in Directors Fortnight, and his breakout To Die Like a Man wowed Un Certain Regard auds three years ago. This film has a good chance of being welcomed to either of these sidebars, but is likely to be too experimental for the Main Competition.