Movie Details
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Leopardo Filmes, Alfama Films, Ahi Company, APM - Ana Pinhão Moura Produções
Off the Beaten Track
DirectorHugo Vieira da Silva
Plot
Taiti, 1903. Doctor, poet and artist Victor Segalen left France and headed for Hiva-Oa, to meet Gauguin personally. On his arrival on the island, he learns the painter had passed away. Adapted from the writings of Victor Segalen, Longe da Estrada is a very fine view of the work, life and contradictions of the great painter Paul Gauguin. And a modern analysis of the relationship between colonizers and colonized people.
