Desert Rose ( Rosa de Areia), António Reis Margarida Cordeiro, 1989

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiros most abstract, conceptual, and literary work. The films collage structure gathers texts from multiple sources including Kafka and Montaigne and crafts a world of theatrical artifice far from the documentaryinspired naturalism of Ana and TrásosMontes. Reis and Cordeiros leastknown film has lingered in obscurity and never recovered from the unfairly negative reviews that resulted in its severely limited release. Reis died less than two years later, just as he and Cordeiro were about to begin an ambitious adaptation of Juan Rulfos Pedro Parámo. Harvard Film Archive