My Little Seamstress

6/10/2024

**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 understand, this was one of the first Portuguese films in color. It is a step forward in the technical field, bringing to Portugal the colorization technologies that had already been in vogue for years i