Confrontational, dark and murky in image and plot, O, Fantasma is a European art film that surpasses Irréversible in anal rape, general misanthropy and grim worldview. A latex-clad figure takes a man ...

Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ “O Fantasma” reveals a young man exploring his sexuality in a first film that is as audacious as it is compelling and as dark as it is erotic. Its sexuality is explicit, ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, to mark it’s 25th anniversary, let’s revisit 2000’s acclaimed dark Portuguese drama O Fantasma. Sure, October ...

The title of this sexually explicit Portuguese feature (2000) means “the phantom,” and that’s clearly how the young hero (Ricardo Meneses), a lonely garbage collector in Lisbon, sees himself. Haunted ...