Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Los Feliz Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE FILM:** *In Portuguese with English subtitles.* This subversively poetic, scandalously perverse sexual comedy earned João César Monteiro a Silver Lion at the 1995 Venice Film Festival. The unofficial sequel to RECOLLECTIONS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE brings João de Deus (Monteiro) back as the assistant manager of a Lisbon ice cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute (a sublime Manuela de Freitas), where the young employees awaken his depraved impulses. GOD’S COMEDY is staggering in its celestial use of natural light and exquisite dialog, and disturbing for the repulsive behavior of a character who sees heaven and hell in all living things and refuses to obey a corrupt social contract and its clerical bodies, yet ultimately epitomizes its sins. Through João de Deus’s combination of sacred (he is enraptured by Camões, Wagner and Haydn) and the profane (he keeps a personal bible of pubic hair, and Queen Victoria’s is its most prized entry), Monteiro exposes the amoral perversity of being alive in a nefarious, cruel world. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild COUNTRY: Portugal