Portuguese Cinema • Manoel de Oliveira
“Memories and Confessions” will premiere at the Rivoli in Porto, and the Portuguese Film in Lisbon, on 4 and 5 May.
The unprecedented film by Manoel de Oliveira, “Memories and Confessions”, shot in 1982 to be shown publicly only after his death, will be displayed for the first time May 4, at Rivoli, in Porto, and at a later session , May 5, at the Portuguese Cinematheque, in Lisbon in sessions scheduled for 21:30.
The 68-minute film was made from a text of Agustina Bessa-Luís writer, and has voice Diogo Doria and Teresa Madruga.
“Memories and Confessions” remained unpublished for more than thirty years, maintained and preserved in the vaults of the Portuguese Cinematheque, although there had been some “very strict exceptions” relating to exhibitions . private
Among them, has become a projection at the Cinematheque in 1993, in the context of the cycle “Oliveira: The Cult and the Hidden”, a presentation restricted, especially authorized by Manoel de Oliveira.
The Cinematheque states that the display ban broader public remained, “for reasons related to the shame involved in autobiographical exposure.”
On the death of the filmmaker, José Manuel Costa, director of the Portuguese Film, revealed that the movie “begins as a reference to the house where he lived, who had to leave by the vicissitudes of his life.” “It has a personal character that, because of this, he asked to be widely distributed after his death,” said José Manuel Costa.
According to him, Manoel de Oliveira intended to restrict the display to after death, not because he wanted to hide any fact, but because it has to do with his life. “It’s a personal memory.”
The film was shot in a house that Manoel de Oliveira built in 1939, with plans to José Porto, and where he lived four decades, and has been classified as a Public Interest ( . IIP) for his modernism
Manoel de Oliveira lived in this house for four decades and there was the family – four children and seven grandchildren. Would lose it after April 25, 1974, following a mortgage for remodeling knitwear factory founded by his father.
Prior to moving to another house, Oliveira recorded the memories of life in this house in film. Agustina Bessa-Luís was invited by the director to write a text which he called “Templates”. Oliveira added some thoughts about the house and the time lived there
Thus was born the documentary “Visit or memory and Confessions” (1982), the director decided it was only revealed after his death -. To Today, only a limited number of members of the production team and close friends of the director could see the movie.
Manoel de Oliveira died on April 2, to 106 years, at his home in Porto.
published 17:16 – 24 April ’15
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