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Get a Life - UK Premiere
Joao Canijo
France/Portugal
2001
115m
35mm
drama
Since the early seventies, more than three million Portuguese émigrés have been living in France, but GET A LIFE is the first fiction film set in the suburbs and housing projects outside Paris that most of them call home. They never witnessed the 1974 revolution that transformed Portugal from dictatorship to democracy, or the attendant cultural transition. As a result, this displaced Portuguese community
is trapped in an awkward time warp. It is a highly conservative community, which fears anything, or anybody that will that is different. Cidalia and her husband struggle to make ends meet; she as a cleaning operator in a far away factory, he as a bartender in a neighborhood café. They both work long hours for very little pay. They hate their lives, but they hope to build a better life for their children. Cidalia and her family's lives quickly begin to implode when their teenage son is murdered during a stand off between Portuguese youth and the French police. Cidalia, despite threats by her husband and her community to not make waves, to not cause trouble, refuses to remain silent. Cidalia fights to find those responsible for her son's death and refuses to quit no matter what it costs herself, her family or her community.
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