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The Luminous Life

5 average rating
★★★★★
5
French / 106 MIN. / 2025

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Francisco MeloCécile MatignonMargarida DiasFederica BalbiGemma TriaÂngela RamosFrancisca AlarcãoAndreia Alves

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