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ABRAHAM'S VALLEY
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A young woman who possesses hypnotically powerful beauty enters into a loveless marriage with a wealthy doctor. Her vows do not prevent her from passionate explorations with others, but ultimately she cannot find spiritual nourishment in this world. "Subtle, elegant, enigmatic, this movie by the veteran Oliveira exercises a powerful grip...echoes the satiric irony of late Bunuel and the secretive minimalism of Bresson" (Wally Hammond, Time Out Film Guide). In Portuguese with English subtitles. Manoel de Oliveira---Portugal/France---1993---187 mins.
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BELLE TOUJOURS
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The sequel to Bunuel's 1967 film, Belle de Jour, directed by Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira at the age of 97, is a masterpiece in its own right. Michel Piccoli reprises his role as Husson, while Bulle Ogier steps in for Catherine Deneuve as the bourgeoisie housewife-turned-prostitute, Severine. Almost four decades after catching his friend's wife, Severine, in a brothel, Husson spots her once again at a concert in Paris and pursues her, dying to unlock the skeletons in her deep, dark closet. "...luminous...extraordinarily graceful" (Richard Brody, The New Yorker). A nominee for Best Actor (Piccolo) at the European Film Awards and an Official Selection at the New York Film Festival. In French with optional Manoel de Oliveira---Portugal/France---2006---70 mins.
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CONVENT (MANOEL DE OLIVERA)
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John Malkovich and Catherine Deneuve are a married couple who become sidetracked from their own relationship while on a professional visit to a Portuguese convent. As a professor, Malkovich is determined to prove that Shakespeare was of Spanish Jewish origin. While he searches for evidence in support of his theory, Deneuve becomes enmeshed in a flirtation with their host, the sinister Baltar. Their exchanges bring the battle between good and evil to an intense carnal level through the lure of temptation. English, French and Portuguese with English subtitles. Manoel de Oliveira---Portugal---1995---90 mins.
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ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL
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In this just-feature-length film from Manoel de Oliveira, the 100-year-old Portuguese auteur, he casts his grandson as a young number-cruncher (Ricardo Trepa) who falls in love with the enchanting girl (Catarina Wallenstein) he spots across the way from his Lisbon office. Though his uncle/boss forbids it, he pursues the girl to his own downfall.
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I'M GOING HOME
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An aging Parisian actor (Michel Piccoli) tragically loses his wife, daughter and son-in-law in a car wreck, leading him to care for his orphaned grandson in this touching and often funny film from Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira (Voyage to the Beginning of the World). Just as life begins to return to normal, an American director (John Malkovich) offers the actor a role in a production of James Joyce's Ulysses, which stirs up old emotions. Also stars Catherine Deneuve. "Beautiful...A glorious film full of revel ations" (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). In French with Manoel de Oliveira---France/Portugal---2001---90 mins.
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O PRINCIPIO DE INCERTEZA
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Based on a book by Agustina Bessa-Luis, The Uncertainty Principle is Manoel de Oliveira's slow, formal meditation on class and sacrifice. Leonar Baldaque plays Camila, who maneuvers herself into a dispassionate marriage with an aristocratic Ivo Canelas, only to suffer in silence as he openly cheats with Leonor Silveira. Nominated for the Golden Palm at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Manoel de Oliveira---Portugal---2002---133 mins.
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PORTO DE MINHA INFANCIA
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Having been in the business of making movies since the advent of sound, Manoel de Oliveira's relatively short but loaded Porto of My Childhood rightfully earned him the UNESCO Award at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. "Announcing its concern with memory in an opening title, the 95-year-old director's 35th film is, after a fashion, an elegy for his hometown, or at least the parts of it that no longer exist" (Philadelphia City Paper). In Portuguese with English subtitles. Manoel de Oliveira---Portugal---2001---62 mins.
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STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA, THE
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In Manoel de Oliveira's romantic ghost story set in 1950s Portugal, a downtrodden photographer is hired by a wealthy family to take a death portrait of their recently deceased daughter, Angelica. Magically, when he looks at the beautiful young woman through his lens, she comes to life. "Surprising in its casual grace" (Village Voice).
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TALKING PICTURE
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Manoel de Oliveira's majestic film follows a young history professor and her daughter on a pleasure cruise through the Mediterranean to Bombay, India. But, sailing towards the Persian Gulf, a strange threat menaces the ship and its passengers. With Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich. "Only a 94-year-old director could get away with ending on such a supremely audacious note" (Bright Lights Film Journal). In Portuguese, French, and Greek with Manoel de Oliveira---Portugal / France / Italy---2003---96 mins.
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VOYAGE TO BEGINNING OF WORLD
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In one of his last roles, Marcello Mastroianni stars as an aging film director who travels to Portugal to visit the elderly aunt of one of his actors. Along the way, the director revisits his own past and faces his own tenuous hold on life. A profound, semi-autobiographical feature from veteran director Manoel de Oliveira, who was 88 when he completed this film. "One of the most beautiful films ever made about aging" (Dave Kehr, New York Daily News). In Portuguese with English subtitles. Manoel de Oliveira---Portugal/France---1997---95 mins.
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