“Solidly paced and crisply photographed, Mountain Wolves cleverly adapts structures and visual motifs from American Westerns and redefines them in a Portuguese context. After a daring escape from a border patrol, a group of smugglers steal into a quiet village where they hope to lie low for a while until the search for them eases up. Yet, here some of the members find peace, and they decide to abandon their illicit careers, until their pasts close in on them. Filmed in many natural locations--including one remarkable sequence on a snow-covered mountainside--Mountain Wolves is a good example of the work of Brum do Canto, an exemplary craftsman and one of the Portuguese cinema's most prolific and consistently popular directors.” Richard Peña