I Only Rest in the Storm — Pedro Pinho [Cannes '25 Review]

Pedro Pinho's film-river, about a Portuguese engineer who came to do an environmental study in Guinea-Bissau, slides into the meandering of desires and uncertainties.

I Only Rest in the Storm — Pedro Pinho [Cannes '25 Review]

A white person adrift in an “exotic” land, losing themselves in order to find themselves in the perceived primitiveness, peculiarity, or freedom of their strange new locale. A whole world has thus been seen, rendered, and interpreted by European eyes throughout the history of cinema, from the overtly racist adventure films of decades past to [...] The post I Only Rest in the Storm — Pedro Pinho [Cannes ’25 Review] appeared first on In Review Onl…