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Synopsis: Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Year:
2010
90 min
102 Views


Even though you're wearing a shirt

saying "I love dick"

For your information, Philip K. Dick is the

world's greatest science fiction writer.

God, you're so ignorant.

All I want to know is

how you got ahold of a cell phone

I found it ok?

I found it!

Why are you making calls

from it if it's not yours?

It's complicated. Ok?

And I don't want to talk about it.

Well, it can't be more complicated

than you're life's gonna be...

... if you don't tell me every

single detail of that story

Where do you think you're going?

I do not talk on the phone in class

if that's what the principal told you.

Well, he says you do.

Otherwise he wouldn't bother me with it.

Well, I don't

I mean...

How could I?

The phone doesn't even work.

Say it again?

The phone is broken.

It doesn't work.

It never did.

If it doesn't work, why do you have it?

I mean, that is even more puzzeling to me.

Do you just pretend to

talk on the phone in class...

...to look cool or to

piss off the teachers?

Is that the deal?

No.

So what do you do with it?

The principal was

very clear about you...

...being seen using

the phone in class.

Are you saying

they made that up?

I just listen to it.

You listen to what?

The phone

You listen to the phone?

Yes.

Didn't you just say the phone is broken?

Yes, I did,

But sometimes,

I get it out of the bag

and put it to my ear.

What for?

I hear things.

Oh, God.

What things?

Words.

Words?

You mean it plays the radio?

No, it's not that.

It doesn't work at all. I told you.

So how do you hear words?

Actually, it's just a single word

each day.

I don't get it.

I just...I hear one word. That's it.

Every day I hear one.

Lucy, you're not making any sense.

I knew you wouldn't understand.

That's why I didn't tell you.

Okay!

You found a cellphone which is dead

Caput! No signal.

And you hear words coming from it.

Yes

And these words, what are they?

Clues.

Clues about what?

Promise you won't freak out?

Lucy, you're scaring me.

You have to promise.

Ok, I promise.

Each word is a clue about

what can save me every day.

That's not funny.

You're joking, right?

Does it sound like I'm joking?

This is serious but I don't want you

to get all freaked out about it either

C'mon, Lucy. How am I

supposed to react to that?

Just listen to the rest of what I

have to say and be cool, alright?

I'm listening.

Remembered the fire?

How can I forget?

That was when it started.

What do you mean?

I found the phone on

the street that morning

and I realized it wasn't working.

So I kept trying to figure out

why it wasn't working

because it looked new.

I turned it on and off and then

I put it to my ear to check for sound

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Fernando Fragata

Filmmaker Fernando Fragata started his career in Portugal with the short film Love & Alchemy, which won him several International awards for best short film and best director. His other Portuguese films include the romantic comedy Sweet Nightmare and the critically acclaimed action comedy Chasing Life (Pulsação Zero). In 2004 he wrote and directed the mystery crime The Trunk (Sorte Nula), which became the top grossing Portuguese film of that year. Backlight came in 2010 and again broke box office records in his home country. more…

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