In A Festa de Margarette, he re-invents the silent film using the conventions of silent film acting, extreme facial gesture and emotive body language, mime and eloquent musical accompanyment to tell the fanciful tale of Pedro who wants to fulfill the dream he has of giving his wife a great birthday party. The portrait of aspirations and disillusionment rendered in high contrast black and white that lends a Samuel Becket-like abstraction to the work, needs no dialogue to convey its simple message."...