The Luminous Life

Name: The Luminous Life
Director: João Rosas
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-05-07
Duration: 106 min
Cast: Francisco Melo, Cécile Matignon, Margarida Dias, Federica Balbi, Gemma Tria

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2025 · 106 min · Drama · TMDB 5.0/10

Overview

It’s springtime in Lisbon and Nicolau turns 24, but he’s not celebrating. Living in his parents’ house, hostage to a dream of being a musician that never comes true and plagued by the ideal image of an ex-girlfriend who left him a year ago and never came back, Nicolau feels incapable of moving forward and inventing a life of his own. He takes odd jobs until the day he discovers that his mother is just as dissatisfied with life as he is. Nicolau is shaken, but he doesn’t stumble.

Directed by João Rosas

Cast

Francisco Melo — Nicolau
Cécile Matignon — Chloé
Margarida Dias — Inês
Federica Balbi — Anna
Gemma Tria — Emma