From Now On (film)
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From Now On is a 2007
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 Portuguese
Cinema of Portugal
Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, sprang up as a movement concerned with showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave...

 film directed by Catarina Ruivo
Catarina Ruivo
Catarina Ruivo , Portuguese director.Catarina Ruivo studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon, specializing her studies in cinematography editing....

 and written by Ruivo and Antonio Figueiredo. The film starred Edgar Morais
Edgar Morais
Edgar Morais is an actor. He began acting at the age of 14, and he studied at the Professional Theater School of Cascais, Lisbon.-Theater career:...

, Luís Miguel Cintra, Adelaide de Sousa, and Antonio Figueiredo, among others. The soundtrack was composed by Vasco Pimentel.

Plot

Dora (Adelaide de Sousa) divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António (Luís Miguel Cintra), and her involvement in left-wing politics. The deus ex-machina of the story, Nelson (Edgar Morais
Edgar Morais
Edgar Morais is an actor. He began acting at the age of 14, and he studied at the Professional Theater School of Cascais, Lisbon.-Theater career:...

), an unstable kid, makes them realize that what they have in the present is more valuable than what they reject from the past and desire for the future.

Cast

  • Edgar Morais
    Edgar Morais
    Edgar Morais is an actor. He began acting at the age of 14, and he studied at the Professional Theater School of Cascais, Lisbon.-Theater career:...

     as Nelson
  • Luís Miguel Cintra as Antonio
  • Adelaide de Sousa as Dora
  • Alexandre Pinto as Jorge
  • Antonio Figueiredo as Policeman

Release

From Now On screened for the first time in 2007 at the Rio Film Festival, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and was widely released in France and Germany on September 18, 2007. The official premiere
Premiere
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 took place in Lisbon
Lisbon
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, Portugal
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on January 24, 2008.

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