Gabriel Abrantes
Gabriel Abrantes, born in North Carolina, United States, in 1984. His films have premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Semaine de la Critique - Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, the Venice Biennial, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0793 |
| Birthday | 1984-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | North Carolina, USA |
| Also Known As |
2010
A History of Mutual Respect
5.6/8
When two boys leave for a philosophical journey and only one is prepared for it, their worlds will part forever.
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A History of Mutual Respect
2015
L for Leisure
5.7/6
A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacati...
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L for Leisure
2015
Here in Lisbon
5/2
Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides...
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Here in Lisbon
2008
Olympia I & II
10/1
This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first part, a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her brother...
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Olympia I & II
2015
Freud und Friends
5.4/7
A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.
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Freud und Friends
2014
Taprobana
5.7/9
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic,...
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Taprobana
2017
Coup de Grâce
0/0
A man, Francisco, works in an open-pit mine. He goes to see his boss about taking the following day off. At first the boss doesn’t want to allow it as...
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Coup de Grâce
2016
A Brief History of Princess X
6.9/9
A look back at the history of Brancusi's futuristic golden bronze phallus "Princess X" that is in fact a bust of Napoleon's incredible great-niece, Ma...
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A Brief History of Princess X
2009
Visionary Iraq
4.3/3
Story about Incest and the Iraq war.
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Visionary Iraq
2009
Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies
0/0
In a dystopian future where survival of all life on the planet depends on the ragged remnants of what used to be the Amazon rainforest, eco-activist c...
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Too Many Daddies, Mommies and Babies
2011
A Portuguese Film
0/0
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
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A Portuguese Film
2011
Palaces of Pity
6.6/9
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a...
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Palaces of Pity
2012
Fratelli
2/2
Gabriel Abrantes and Alexander Melo deconstruct the 1st section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as a playful, vibrant ode to bacchanalia, classic...
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