dot.com
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | dot.com |
| Country of production | Portugal , Brazil , Ireland , Spain |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luís Galvão Teles |
| script | Suzanne Nagle |
| production | Luís Galvão Teles (Fado Films) |
| music | Guy Farley |
| camera | Miguel Sales Lopes |
| cut | Carlos Domeque |
| occupation | |
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dot.com is a Portuguese film from the year 2007 .
action
The young road construction engineer Pedro originally came to the small, central Portuguese village of Águas Altas to plan and build an important connecting road, but work has stopped and he is waiting for his return to the big city. Out of boredom and because he has now enjoyed winning over the village and its residents, he runs a website about the village, which nobody in the village or outside is interested in. When a Spanish beverage company introduced a new product called Aguas Altas and needed the internet domain used by Pedro for the right marketing campaign , the company quickly tried to extort it from the village with a threat of legal action. This provokes bitter resistance from the residents, but also diverse discussions and camp formation. A Spanish company representative then comes to the village to get the domain with cunning and money, the international press then stages a David versus Goliath media event, and Portuguese politics sees itself threatened by domestic and foreign political entanglements.
reception
The film plays with the old rivalry between the overpowering Spain and the smaller Portugal, which does not want to be patronized by its arrogant neighbor. But also the contrast between the quiet province and the central government in bustling Lisbon is the subject of the film, as well as the supposedly typical character traits of the common people and the Portuguese mentality, which with all its peculiarity and all pride in the end supposedly always a compromise and a reason to celebrate finds. In addition, the film also takes on the power question of money and corporations, and ultimately it also serves to show an idyllic landscape of the neglected Portuguese hinterland.
The film is aimed at a wide audience, which it also found in Portugal (among the most watched Portuguese films since 2004). The film was released in cinemas in many different countries, including Germany on December 9, 2010. He won the audience award at the Festival of Portuguese Films in Coimbra , the Caminhos do Cinema Português , but also received bad reviews. The beautiful pictures and the cheerful, fluently told story were usually called positive, while the script could not meet any higher demands.
The village of Dornes , which provided the setting for the film, became famous for the success of dot.com . The production thanked the village by holding the preview of the film on location. The then President Aníbal Cavaco Silva came to the remote Dornes for a preview on March 24, 2007, as a memorial plaque in the village reminds of.
Web links
- Dot.com in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dot.com in the lexicon of international films
- Trailer (OmEnglU) on YouTube
- Recordings from the premiere party in Dornes, on YouTube
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.spielfilm.de/kino/2985894/dot-com.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Interview with the director, bonus material on the DVD of the film, Fado Films / Lusomundo 2007
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://film.kleiner-kalender.de/event/kinostart/8094-dot.com.html
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0793413/awards
- ↑ Interview with the director
- ↑ http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/dot-com/96717
- ↑ http://www.kino-zeit.de/filme/dot-com
- ↑ http://www.tip-berlin.de/kino-und-film/im-kino-dot-com
