Some always wanted to be a hero...
Some always dreamed of walking on the moon...
Some were always in search of the Holy Grail...
But now...
Everybody wants to be... Portuguese !
In this high concept comedy, taking place at the College of Europe in Bruges, a strange disease, similar to the flu, is spreading among the students. But no coughing, no sneezing, no throat aching or anything of that sort... Only that... every student starts to behave like a Portuguese.
And there they are, trying to steal or get Portuguese passports in the black market or learn Portuguese ways (walk and talk like Portuguese, get the glamour, style, moustache, hairy skin as a Portuguese...)
Swedish and Nordics, Germans, Russians, Canadians, Americans, French,
British, Italians... every single student and soon every other inhabitant in Bruges does all he can to pass as a
Portuguese and be
officially considered as one.
The virus spreads to the point of forbidding non-Portuguese people to live in Bruges. Any non-Portuguese would be kicked out.
But what is exactly... "the art of being Portuguese"?
THE ONLY ANSWER is in TIAGO MESQUITA's film, shot back in 1999.
Enjoy... and be the best Portuguese ever !
