Pax (1994)

Name: Pax
Director: Eduardo Guedes
Released: 1994-01-01
Duration: 1 h 5 min
Cast: Amanda Plummer, Isabel Ruth, Pedro Efe, João Lagarto

Director: Eduardo Guedes

Cast: Amanda Plummer, Isabel Ruth, Pedro Efe, João Lagarto

Runtime65 min

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Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only knows that the recipient's name is João. When she meets an old prostitute, Esmeralda, the two join forces and begin cruising the town at night, across the streets and the local bars, meeting Lisbon's unconventional night fauna, to try to find João.

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Pax, the 1994 film directed by Eduardo Guedes, is a little-known but critically acclaimed Portuguese drama that follows an American girl, Franny, as she searches Lisbon for a mysterious recipient. While the film's public reception on platforms like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes is not widely documented, it has garnered praise from film experts for its unique narrative and character-driven exploration of the city's unconventional nightlife.

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Fans of offbeat character studies and Lisbon's unique urban landscape will appreciate the quirky charm of this 1994 film directed by Eduardo Guedes, which features standout performances from Amanda Plummer and Isabel Ruth as an unlikely duo on a quixotic search through the city's nocturnal underbelly.

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Pax is a Portuguese comedy film directed by Eduardo Guedes with a screenplay by Bruno Heller. It is part of a film trilogy about Lisbon, ordered for Lisbon's year as European Cultural Capital in 1994.