O Caso Coutinho

12/3/2023

**A good short film.** As far as I remember, this was the first Portuguese short film I saw. I was drawn to it by the theme and the presence of Vítor Norte, an actor who I consider very solid and who always provides us with committed work. I don't know the director Luís Alves, which is hardly surprising if we consider that this is the third short film in his career, without a single feature film. The script is simple and it's difficult not to "spoil" just to describe it: Coutinho, an elderly man who lives alone in his apartment on the outskirts of Lisbon, is being subjected to real harassment to leave his house and allow the start of a tourism enterprise. The man feels disturbed and persecuted. Basically, the film almost reveals and documents a deeply sad reality that happened a lot