The Luminous Life (2025)

5.0/10 • 106 min • Drama

Overview

It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.

Cast

Francisco Melo

Cécile Matignon

Federica Balbi

Gemma Tria

Ângela Ramos

Francisca Alarcão

Andreia Alves

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