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Many Die Too Late

Julian believes he has already died inside. Between dirty rooms, cigarettes and casual encounters, he survives in a state of emotional drift. Until love — real or imagined — erupts, and life fills with bodies, voices, lights, and promises. But what seemed like salvation begins to crumble, revealing the asymmetry between what is offered and what one is willing to receive. With a mise-en-scène made of fragments: cats, trains, spilled wine, and music that invades without asking permission, Many Die Too Late is a film diary of enamorment and loss. It is not about narrating what happened, but about recording what burned in the instant when there was nothing left to save.

  • Julian Bonnin
    Director
  • Julian Bonnin
    Writer
  • Julian Bonnin
    Producer
  • Carla Madeira
    Key Cast
  • Sofia Miguel Castro
    Key Cast
  • Julian Bonnin
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 3 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 8, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    2,400 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Apple ProRes
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Julian Bonnin

Julian Bonnin’s work explores the tragic, love, and solitude with formal rigor and existential intensity. His films — always marked by a philosophical tension between desire and finitude — portray characters in ruin, who seek, in vain, some form of aesthetic or emotional salvation. In A Origem da Primavera, color bursts into a gray world as the only vestige of meaning; in Marvila 793, urban loneliness finds in social media the simulacrum of love; La Mariée était à Rio proposes a silent clash between otherness and domestication, set to the music of Villa-Lobos and Miles Davis; and Muitos Morrem Tarde Demais radicalizes his autofictional aesthetic by turning lost love into a funerary gesture. With a strong presence of aphorisms, silences, and inner rhythms, Julian Bonnin’s cinema is an existential journey where beauty, when it appears, is always on the verge of a fall.

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Director Statement

We will all die. Love while you can.