In this very personal documentary, filmmaker Rui Simões combines newsreel footage, popular music, personal footage and metaphoric images into a brilliant, poetic montage that reflects on the political events that took place between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975. Apart from being a unique artistic analysis of a critical political period, Bom Povo Português is also very timely, in light of recent elections in Portugal: the same cast of characters will reappear. The film was hailed at international film festivals including Cannes, Edinburgh and São Paulo. Writing for his Critics' Choice selection at the 1981 London Film Festival, Don Ranvaud notes, “The spirit of the bloodless Carnation Revolution is here matched by an exhilarating ‘patchwork' of narrative rhythms.... I can think of no other film that succeeds quite so brilliantly in merging a dispassionate analysis of extremely complicated political events with a breathtakingly lyrical sensitivity towards the hopes and illusions of a whole people.”