“Better remember, you were born in a backward village, and you need to learn to hang on. Almost all my neighbors were run out of the city….The city has devoured many, but hasn’t laid a hand on me.” 

Lisbon and its people are perpetually at odds with each other and themselves, seeking their identity and struggling to eke out a meaningful life, in Paulo Rocha’s captivating 1963 debut “The Green Years.” Newly restored, the film is considered a landmark in New Portuguese Cinema, but this is no exhumed relic.

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