Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.
Filmed in one of the remaining social housing towers of Aleixo (Porto, Portugal), “Bicicleta” tells the story of a family living under economic pressure.
A widow, a corpse, an undertaker, a young woman in a family way. Life and death meet in a funeral procession down a stairwell.
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