It was released on February 27 in Portugal “A film that will give nightmares to Fernando Medina and the people of Lisbon.”announced on D-day, the News diary In one of his publications. Medina has been mayor of the socialist Portuguese capital since 2015. This documentary is signed by the director “Unknown to the majority of Portuguese filmgoers”His name is Paulo Abreu Alice Obu. As for the name given to Lisbon by the Phoenicians, which means “safe harbour”, “gentle bay”, “charming haven”, or “delightful harbour” – translations may differ.
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The Portuguese daily newspaper announces this “A punk meditation on Lisbon's ongoing gentrification phenomenon”. by “Her sarcasm and bitterness”The movie shows “Lisbon population deficit”confined even to their way of life, “To stop mass tourism” : Cruise ships, tuk-tuks, scooters, guides, hordes of tourists. Alice Obu Displays “An advertising campaign that the municipality of Lisbon could do without”transformed to “Lesbopoland”.
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The newspaper concludes:
Global tourism is just that: it is such a fast predator that it even managed to produce this feature film It's half a Tati-style comedy, half a Carpenter-style horror film.
Paulo Abreu is not the first to address in a documentary the phenomenon of gentrification and the harms of tourism in Lisbon. Eugene Green, the most Portuguese of French directors, had already released a film last year called Lisbon revisited It remained unpublished in France.
No release dateAlice Obu This has not been announced in France at the present time.
