The Isle of Love

The period, work, love affairs, life and death of Wenceslau de Moraes, the great Portuguese writer whose works were steeped in orientalism, and who was born in Lisbon in 1854, died in Tokushima, Southern Japan, in 1929. <The Island of Love> is taken from the title of the most famous chapter in <The Lusiads>, the epic poem by Luiz Vaz de Camões, the great Portuguese poet of the 16th century. [The 23rd Jeonju International Film Festival]