An author writes a story entitled O som da terra a tremer, and the story constantly entwines itself with his private life. The man lives alone and has an imaginary love story with a woman, Isabelle, who has a literary salon and always seems to be waiting for something. One day the two decide to go off together, or imagine that they have, but their departure never takes place. T...
1974 in Lisbon in the throes of the Carnation Revolution. Dina prefers to skip classes and hang out in bars. She meets Django and succumbs to his charm. Together, they trap and fleece patsies...
The film is based on a news item that Solveig Nordlund reconstructs with a devastating actress, photo-story framing and intense colors.
“A kind of Portuguese-style Bonnie and Clyde with...
Based on one of the most important and popular works of Portuguese literature, Doomed Love was recently revealed to North American audiences as one of de Oliveira’s greatest works. Closely following Camilo Castelo Branco’s eponymous novel from 1862, de Oliveira creates a radical and unprecedented fusion of theatre, literature and cinema, which, according to Jonathan Rosenbaum, ...
Perhaps the most enjoyable Oliveira film I've watched so far also proved to be the most frustrating experience (through no fault of the genial Portuguese director, whom I saw at the 2004 Venice Film Festival): unfortunately, the copy shown on late-night Italian TV was of an atrocious quality – with intermittent picture loss, rampant pixellation and considerable stretches where ...
For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods. A lyrical and profoundly cinematographic allegory with a glistening sharp p...
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葡萄牙/法国2003年约阿·凯撒·蒙泰罗(《上帝的婚礼》)自编自导自演的喜剧片，戛纳电影节参展作品。
尚吁吁是个风流鳏夫，退休最大的精神寄托是以登广告征聘女佣为名，广交天下女界为实──沉迷女色是他一生执迷。尚吁吁当然是蒙特路又一次夫子自道，不同的是在开拍本片前蒙便自知不久于人世，其本色在此益更傲岸坚决，矢志不移。电影是蒙对这世界的最终凝眸与沉思，绵长而固定的长镜堪称历史纪录。影片使人不安，固然是蒙以他嶙峋的形骸演回这个‘老淫虫’的角色，然观众必得接纳他的幽默，才更体会蒙之才华：一个超级的走钢线艺人，在愤世与荒诞、猥亵与升华间踏取稀有的平衡。
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《离去与回来》是葡萄牙老导演约阿·凯撒·蒙泰罗遗作，戛纳电影节参展作品。“约阿·凯撒·蒙泰罗，1934年2月2日出生于世界闻名的海滩胜地费古埃拉达佛斯，15岁时迁居里斯本。1963...
