Palaces of pity portuguese with hardcoded english subtitles

A portuguese experimental / fantasy / art house medium length film by gabriel abrantes and daniel schmidt
palácios de pena is set upon a series of fabulous, almost fantastical locations that serve as set for a narrative that intertwines childhood imagery with historical and social imaginary following the vicissitudes of two teenage girls, palácios de pena offers an opulent and lavish cinematography to critically observe the historical roots of portuguese culture

haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother in the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past – one consumed by fear and desire – the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of porn palácios de pena is about a culturally inherited fear in portugal, linked to political and social sex during the inquisition and fascism

it revolves around two upper middle class adolescent portuguese girls, juxtaposing their budding identities to a trial condemning two mooris