Two days to celebrate 106 years of life, the director Manoel de Oliveira was on Tuesday awarded the Legion of Honor by the French his career in the service of film and culture.
In a ceremony held at the Serralves Museum in Porto, the French ambassador to Portugal described the filmmaker centenary of the route as “unusual” and marked by friendship ties with that country.
Jean-François Blarel stressed the Francophone links Manoel de Oliveira, showing “pride in that part of the work has been carried out in France” and French, remembering the various distinctions that the Portuguese director has received throughout his career, from the Robert Bresson Award for the Golden Palm for career in Cannes.
“It is my great honor to receive, on the part of France, this distinction,” said Manoel de Oliveira, in French, before thanking France and to say “Viva cinema ” before an audience that included the Secretary of State for Culture, the mayor of Porto and the director João Botelho.
The mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, reported that often is asked about . Manoel de Oliveira is the Port: “I usually say that the Port is Manoel de Oliveira”
Jean-François Blarel has listed the number of lives contained in almost 106 years – to complete on Thursday -. the director of “Douro, Faina Fluvial”, since the actor “Fátima Milagrosa” the dancer “Restless” to so many other
The diplomat stressed if it is an “genial director, Always a radical modernity, without ceasing to be put in question, to explore new aesthetic and manifesting always the strong awareness of the artistic value of cinema. “
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho in a statement, praised on Tuesday the director Manoel de Oliveira as a “national cinema and world reference” in the day that the filmmaker was honored by the Government of France.
Passos Coelho welcomed “with the award, by the French State, the Great Official insignia of the Legion of Honor of France to the director Manoel de Oliveira.”
The Prime Minister also pointed out that the Portuguese State has also distinguished “odd career Manoel de Oliveira”, with the Commendation of the Order of Military Sant`Iago the Sword (1980), with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword Sant`Iago Military (1988) and the Order of the Grand Cross Henry the Navigator (2008).
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