FILM

Sincero, apaixonado wanders through Portugal’s countryside as men’s voices read, and reread, fragments from a diary found in an abandoned house, dated 2009. The writer is unknown; a vagrant caught in a love story that keeps tipping into obsession. Across day and night, the film follows that feverish drift through landscapes shaped by distance and disparity. The diary’s lyricism is captivating, but it’s also steeped in narcissism and masculine self-mythology. The film lives with that tension as it moves through the country, tender and uneasy, infatuated and self-questioning.