Forever Mine

Ella and Mark Bricevare are on their honeymoon at a resort in Miami. When Ella meets cabana boy Alan Riply, sparks fly and they fall into each other's arms. When powerful politician Mark discovers the affair, he attempts to kill Alan, disfiguring him in the process. Years later, under the assumption that Alan is dead, Mark hires Manuel Esquema to help him with some legal problems. However, he fails to realize that Manuel is Alan.

Duration: 117
Production year: 1999
Country: Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom
Subtitles: Subtitles: Portuguese

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader was born on July 22, 1946, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Born and raised in an ultra-puritan community of local Dutch Calvinists, he didn’t have access to the world of cinema until entering college, whence he was forbidden to watch movies by his parents. He entered the university to study theology, but later decided to switch to cinemhe started working as a film critic and, at the same time, studying Film Theory. In 1972, he wrote the celebrated book Transcendental Style In Film: Ozu, Dreyer Bresson and began writingscreenplays.

After the success, in 1976, of the screenplay for Taxi Driver, Schrader started directing his own films. His most recent feature films First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021) and Master Gardener (2022) have been described by Schrader as parts of a modern trilogy.

Original title: Forever Mine

Paul Schrader

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