{"id":17676,"date":"2025-07-05T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17676"},"modified":"2025-07-05T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:52:04","slug":"trails-barefoot-joao-cesar-monteiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17676","title":{"rendered":"Trails \/ Barefoot (Jo\u00e3o C\u00e9sar Monteiro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Trails<\/em> aka <em>Paths<\/em> (1978)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some kind of montage of folk tales, fables, poetry, with some gratuitous nudity.<\/p>\n<p>White-haired guy is a relentless storyteller. A good section where a guy is running side-quests for a sheep thief, followed by too many scenes where admittedly cool-looking people stand still and recite lines.  One guy gets imprisoned by gunmen for setting their slave-labor free. I got very tired and spaced out, but we reached present day somehow. The main(?) characters are a young couple in love, of course, or maybe multiple couples, since at one point she&#8217;s stabbed and thrown into the sea, and later she and her baby get killed by werewolves.  Whatever&#8217;s going on here, Monteiro sure knows how to frame a shot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/trails1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/trails2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men&#8217;s Shoes<\/em> (1965)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early short containing some of his later preoccupations (doomed couples, mirrors, Luis Miguel Cintra).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/trails3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/trails4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/trails5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trails aka Paths (1978) Some kind of montage of folk tales, fables, poetry, with some gratuitous nudity. White-haired guy is a relentless storyteller. A good section where a guy is running side-quests for a sheep thief, followed by too many scenes where admittedly cool-looking people stand still and recite lines. One guy gets imprisoned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,2370,3394,268,370,2642,1673],"class_list":["post-17676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-folk-music","tag-joao-cesar-monteiro","tag-poetry","tag-portugal","tag-sheep","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17692,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676\/revisions\/17692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}