O Fantasma

2000 film by João Pedro Rodrigues

João Pedro Rodrigues
José Neves
Paulo Rebelo
Alexandre Melo

Produced byAmândio CoroadoStarring

Ricardo Meneses
Beatriz Torcato
André Barbosa
Eurico Vieira

CinematographyRui PoçasEdited by

Paulo Rebelo
João Pedro Rodrigues

Production
companies

Rosa Filmes
Radiotelevisão Portuguesa
Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia

Distributed byRosa Filmes

Release dates

8 September 2000 (2000-09-08) (Venice)
20 October 2000 (2000-10-20) (Portugal)

Running time

87 minutesCountryPortugalLanguagePortugueseBox office$126,783 (United States)^[1]

O Fantasma (English: The Phantom or The Ghost) is a 2000 Portuguese erotic drama film directed by João Pedro Rodrigues (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by the independent production company Rosa Filmes.^[2]

Premise

Young and handsome Sérgio works the night shift as a trash collector in Lisbon. He is uninterested in his pretty female co-worker Fatima, who displays an avid interest in him, so instead Sérgio roams the city. Eventually Sérgio becomes fascinated with a sleek motorcycle and its arrogant owner—a young man completely indifferent to Sérgio. Sérgio's surfacing desires unleash his darkest impulses, sending him down a dangerous path of violence, depravity, and degradation.

Cast

Ricardo Meneses as Sérgio
Beatriz Torcato as Fátima
André Barbosa as João
Eurico Vieira as Virgílio
Jorge Almeida as police officer
Joaquim Oliveira as Mário
Florindo Lourenço as Matos
Maria Paola Porru as João's mother

Reception

The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. It won the prize for Best Feature Film in the New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and the Entrevues Film Festival. Meneses was nominated for the 2001 Portuguese Golden Globe award for Best Leading Actor.