Cahiers du Cinéma prepares special issue on filmmaker to … – publico

                 
                 

 
                         

The French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma is currently preparing a tribute to Manoel de Oliveira out in the edition of May 9, told Lusa the editor of Stéphane Delorme magazine.

                     

                          “We are preparing our tribute to Manoel de Oliveira. We will probably publish an exclusive interview with him, we will write about his work and dedicate to it 25 to 30 pages in the next issue. It is important for us, “said Stéphane Delorme, adding that the May issue will coincide with the Cannes Film Festival.

In an interview by telephone Lusa, the journalist recalled that the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma has a great connection with the Portuguese filmmaker and the founder of the magazine, André Bazin, “found Manoel de Oliveira in 1956, 57 and published an article on 57″.

“It was very early. Oliveira was not at all known in Portugal. André Bazin was to Porto, met Oliveira, saw the documentary on the Douro and The Painter and The City . They sympathized and strolled together. So, as early as 1957 there is a connection point between France and Oliveira through Cahiers du Cinéma “, stated Stéphane Delorme.

The editor of monthly magazine said the news of the death of Portuguese filmmaker left “a very sad wording” not least because the journalists thought that death “would never arrive because he continued to shoot and seemed endless.”

“We were very sad and with the impression that fell a monument, although never have had the impression that he was a monumental cinema. The film him was elegant, ironic, intelligent. He always avoided the monumental even when made a masterpiece as Non or the Vain Glory of Command , which does not feel the weight of this history of successes and failures, “he continued.

Stéphane Delorme made three interviews with Manoel de Oliveira, which agreed with the impression of a person “intelligent, kind and avoidance” speaking “immediately Human and Life”, a “true filmmaker – not just a director – with a global vision of man and of history, “something” is rare in filmmakers of today. “

” The route of Manoel de Oliveira is very surprising from the beginning to today. He trod its own path that is admirable and exemplary, maintaining a freedom for all movements. It is an example of freedom and superior vision, “he said.

The editor of Cahiers du Cinéma also made a point to remember that the” great connection “with the Portuguese filmmaker France gained a new audience of “young moviegoers” and the film The Strange Case of Angelica (2010) was one of the examination subjects in the last two years for secondary school finalists who chose the option Cinema

“There was a renewed interest by Manoel de Oliveira with films Uniqueness of A Blonde Girl and The Strange Case of Angelica that attracted many young moviegoers. It is important to note that Oliveira has an audience of young people and not just the elite Parisian cinephile who follows many years, “he said.