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The Embassy

2011Documentary37mPortuguese

In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.

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In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.

7.0Global · TMDB

Nine-factor breakdown

SHOWING: GLOBAL
Story
7.6
Acting
7.4
Visuals
6.9
Emotion
7.0
Comedy
6.7
Pacing
7.3
Sound
6.9
Directing
6.9
Rewatch
6.2