The Green Years (Os Verdes Anos) (NR)

synopsis

In The Green Years, nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a
shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a
regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life. Never
released in the U.S., Rocha's debut film, gloriously shot in black-and-white, is an extraordinary and
haunting coming-of-age tale.