Mizé - more of a rough guide than a complete and polished one
When romance loses its head and walks straight into a minefield. Published in 2006, it throws us into the life of an insolent woman (Mizé).
Mizé is "frog-mouthed", a body on fire, sharp-tongued, and permanently refuses to be tamed. Good intentions never got anyone anywhere. To get there (somewhere), you have to tear through the farce of normality, expose the grotesque and funny side of everyday life, have the courage to be vulgar when everyone pretends to be sophisticated: pimba music at full volume, Lazer shows in a provincial nightclub, messy makeup.
Like someone throwing grenades in a tea room.
Seen from here, it's beautiful! And rare in Portuguese.
In cinema, we owe her "São Jorge". On television we owe her "Sara". And when I say "we owe her", I mean it literally. We should make her a transfer as a thank you.
Ricardo Adolfo (b. 1974) grew up in Lisbon, but has been living between Amsterdam and Tokyo, collecting geographies that contaminate his writing. He is a novelist, screenwriter, and advertising man, and in everything he does you can see the same impulse: to provoke, to dismantle discourses, to expose the ridiculous where it is least expected.