Florbela

2012 •

Drama; Biography

• Sales by Ukbar Filmes

Feature Film by Vicente Alves do Ó

Portugal

Florbela Espanca is one of the most important marks in Portuguese XX century poetry. Her story can be told with or without its notorious side. Aside the fascination for its scandalous nature, it will always be a story of a passionate woman which created and inspired passion. She reinvented de concept of being a poet in her time and still it echoes in our days and most certainly in times to come. This is the intimate portrait of Florbela: a life filled with suffering from where derived the most enchanted poetry, never afar from sensuality. The path by which her words became eternal.