Inquietude

three meditations on mortality on three existential planes of reality. the maestro himself appears in the middle of the second act, dancing with his wife in a restaurant: a sort of cosmic joke. an unutterably sad film that made me laugh out loud more than once. yes, now…

rischka

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Bruno Andrade

I programmed a ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective at BAM, featuring nine North American-premiere restorations. It starts in one week with this film, which screens again on April 2. Full program: Anxiety Fri, Mar 28 at 7PM, Wed, Apr 2 at 7PM Oliveira’s 1998…

Nick Newman

While this turned out not to be the last Manoel de Oliveira film I still hadn't seen, - it seems that I've still to watch at least three of them - it'll be hard for the remaining few to top this one in terms of quality, be it the lustrous, humbly aesthetic cinematography…

Mr Minio

Anthology of three stories adapted from a Portuguese writer I don't know, in a late Symbolist/early Modernist vein that reminds me of something halfway between Jules Laforgue and Cocteau. Under the circumstances (1890-1915 source material), that woman-as-Other stuff is…

Lencho of the Apes

outside of that uncharacteristically Keaton-esque moment in the first vignette, this is the tonally saddest de Oliveira film i've seen. about death, loss immortality. it's interesting that de Olivera's later films particularly those that adopt this kind of theatricality…

jemma_couture

Рад, что не пошел на него в кино до показа "Письма", иначе на этой антологии из трёх новелл моя ретроспектива Оливейры бы и закончилась. Лучшая тут, на мой взгляд, первая, похожая на телепьесу по чеховскому рассказу. Отец-старец уламывает престарелого сына покончить с…

Dmitry_Karpyuk

One of those films that seem to express everything essential in life, just tremendously beautiful work that isn't afraid to make its characters' vanities transparent while reflecting their places in this world as they face infinity (legacy, starry sky, the ancient world).…

V. Lepistö

Texto 2: O desejo da imortalidade é o ponto soante que faz de Inquietude algo muito além de um justapor de narrativas curtas. A encenação diretamente teatral, o drama romântico e a fábula são aproximados em três episódios ecoados entre si, numa habilidosa costura de…

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