The year is 1759. Yet in the aftermath of the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon just four years earlier, in a political and economic crisis environment, Joseph I, King of Portugal (António Cordeiro) is the victim of an attack carried in one night in September when returning to the Royal Field after a meeting with his new mistress - the new Marchioness of Tavora (Sandra Cóias). A...
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, ...
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It's their secret. Cla...
