
Family Weekend
2013


4 votes
Aurora is a modest young girl, working as dressmaker for the women her popular district, near the OPorto cathedral. One day, through a hintz-dress design competition, she gets involved with a haut couture atelier.
Director
Manuel GuimarãesWriters
Status
Released
Original Language
Portuguese
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies

**A film that left little mark, but shows the difficulties of making cinema under a dictatorship... and how beautiful Porto was before they ruined the city.** Portuguese cinema has a restricted range of great classics that everyone knows and that still continue to win audiences today, through regular screenings on RTP (the state radio and television group) and a certain “cult” status. “A Costureirinha da Sé” is not one of those films. It appears late, years after the “golden age” of cinema in Portugal, and seems strange due to the fact that it is a color film. In fact, as far as I could und…
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