"adeus, Pai" Starring Jose Afonso Pimentel

Filipe (Jose Afonso Pimentel) has never spent any time with his father. He has never gone fishing. He has never played catch. He has never been on vacation. His father has never entered his bedroom, even when he was sick. Then one day in the middle of his thirteenth year, Filipe's father enters his room and tells him that they are going on vacation.

There are many bitter-sweet moments as Filipe finds the true answers to all the questions he has had bottled up for the last thirteen years: How did his parents meet? Why has his father never spent any time with him? Why did his grandfather kill himself? The answers he gets saddens him, yet also brings him relief.

His father at first tries to show his son that he is a good father by taking him to do all the things they have never done together, such as teaching him to fish, but it is soon revealed that he has no clue what he is doing. Filipe, the loving son, lets him know he doesn't have to pretend to know how to do certain things in order to spend time with him.

Filipe soon meets a girl that he falls in love with. That, along with the girl's 14 year old brother teaching him about sex, leads Filipe to begin questioning his father about all the things he doesn't understand about sex, including asking about his parents' own lovemaking; much to his father's consternation.

This is a superb movie about a somewhat estranged father/son relationship that seems to have finally found a solution. Pimentel does a tremendous job portraying the devoted if ignored son. His depiction of naivety and ignorance is completely believable and wonderfully done.

By: Christian Jentz

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Christian Jentz is a world traveler who has visited nine countries, and has lived in three. He has been to Europe, North America, and Asia. Through his travels he has developed a love for foreign films. He has written several articles, and contributed to several blogs for BlueCowboyFilms.com. He is multi-lingual. He currently lives in China where he is an English instructor. BlueCowboyFilms.com