Rating: 6 out of 10 ★ - From 5 Users

Storyline The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012):

Part memoir, part city symphony, part noir-ish B-movie adventure, the new feature from critically acclaimed film-making duo João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (To Die Like a Man) is a sensual, shape-shifting ode to one of the world's most mythic, alluring and exoticized cities.

Movie details

Title: The Last Time I Saw Macao
Released: 2012-08-06
Genre: Documentary, Thriller
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Date: 2012-08-06
Runtime: 85
Company: E, I, B
Homepage: Homepage Movie
Trailer: Video Trailer

Casts of The Last Time I Saw Macao:

Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria João Guerra da Mata, Lydie Barbara, Raphaël Lefèvre, Nuno Carvalho, Hoi Kem Foo, Rita Chan, Janete Chan,

Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata. With Lydie Barbara, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Cindy Scrash. Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in Macao - have a dialog with the memories of the East built by ...

Much like, arguably, his best film, The Last Time I Saw Macao, Rodrigues crafts painterly, often quietly erotic images that are only elevated by some truly awe-inspiring photography. Sequences shift from warm, waterfront shots of a beautiful Fernando sunbathing in his underwear, to an icy sequence that finds that same topless Fernando tied of to a tree with castration being threatened. From ...

"Last Time I Saw Macao" struck me as taking the same approach, but it just never came together. Watch it if you just want to see nice images of an exotic city. But if you are looking for any sort of traditional literary story or soul-enhancing truths, you won't find it here. The gimmick just didn't work for me.

Summary: A wonderfully mysterious, shape-shifting feature from celebrated filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, The Last Time I Saw Macao is a detective tale that blends film noir, documentary footage and personal travelogue to intoxicating effect. [Cinema Guild]

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A mystery surfaces obliquely in “The Last Time I Saw Macao,” almost hieroglyphically, in images like that of a woman seated at a gaming table, her blood-red talons all but pulsing in the frame.

Though not crucial, it helps to have a working knowledge of 1952’s Macao to decode The Last Time I Saw Macao, an oblique drama steeped in allusions to Josef Von Sternberg’s Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum-headlined noir. Together with art director/co-director João Rui Guerra Da Mata, Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues opens with an older blonde drag queen in a sultry Chinese dress ...

Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Odete) and regular collaborator Joao Rui Guerra de Mata’s The Last Time I Saw Macao opens on a show stopping, lip synch drag performance by Cindy Scrash, made up like an ...

The Last Time I Saw Macao. Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by ...