Manoel de Oliveira
Some of the most important actors and actresses in Oliveira’s work react to his death and talk about how it was working with the director.
The actor Luis Miguel Cintra , who took part in several films of Manoel de Oliveira, who died on Thursday, reminded today that the first thing we did when the director began the making of a film was “create a family. “
” I never had much too elaborate conversations or intellectual about anything he was doing, that’s part of the secret of what was being done in common. I hoped there was an undercurrent of understanding between persons that is established through very simple things, like eating at the same table, talking about the health of people, ask how was the father, as was his mother, (…), with all team members, ” recalled.
Conversations “were not only the actors, with the first figures or the second was with the electrician or with anyone. This created a kind of family, especially by the presence of women Manoel de Oliveira that always accompanied him on all the footage, the most moving way, interfering and he let it interfere in an atmosphere out of all the rules, because he lived so “, also included Luis Miguel Cintra.
French actress Catherine Deneuve recalled Manoel de Oliveira as a man “very special”. “Sometimes an incredible hardness, their films had a very particular personality,” said Catherine Deneuve.
French actress said the mark of Portuguese filmmaker, recalling the filming of “The Convent” (1995), in which opposite actor John Malkovich. “Manoel de Oliveira was very special, sometimes seductive and authoritative, often charming. Above all, he had something artist, working non-stop in his films, imposed his vision in complete creation” described.
Deneuve also recalled the enthusiasm of the Portuguese director: “He rejoiced when he had an idea had to obey him and do what he wanted I saw him stop filming because there was an accessory to a scene… For several hours hoped that the object came, so that your vision stay complete. There are not many filmmakers who can afford to work like that. “
Maria War Heaven says the director “Manoel de Oliveira was a very happy man, had a great fortune, lived longer than his contemporaries and managed to make an extraordinary work, we can all visit and see,” said the actress, into the the awards ceremony of the Film Academy where he received the Portuguese Sophia for best actress for her role in “Cats Do not have Vertigo”.
The actress Matos of Glory said the director Manoel de Oliveira “liked to be surprised, and that the actors to surprise, it was a creator in the true sense of the term.”
The actress, who worked with the director in films like “Benilde or the Virgin Mother” and “Frances”, told Lusa that was in Manoel de Oliveira, “anything from child who never died in it, a certain naivety, and that is in his movies. ”
Matos Glory noted the importance that the director gave the text, and rigorous way preparing the scene “and, although I like to be surprised, things had to run like he had imagined.”
The actress recalled a scene from the movie “Valley Abraham,” in which Luis Miguel Cintra contracenava with, and that “despite being shot at three in the morning, with windows – and it was a difficult scene to do, it was very intimate – we had to repeat to achieve what he had imagined. ”
Another scene that recalled the actress was the death, in “Frances” in which, “after saying the beautiful text of Agustina Bessa-Luís, had to raise his head – was crying, as asked the script. ” “The Manoel was amazed, surprised, unable to stop filming, and for days always walked to wonder how he had managed to cry, and just told me, ‘O Glory, but as it was, but how?’”
“He had been surprised, as in the movie” The Fifth Empire – yesterday and today ‘, a scene between me and Luis Miguel Cintra, Manoel itself launched a sword, which spun, did a dance and fell , an amazing thing, with which he himself was surprised. The scene, rare, was aplaudidíssima at the Venice Film Festival, “said the actress, who also appeared in” Cannibals “,” Magic Mirror “and” Oddities of a blonde girl “.
Also Leonor Silveira recalled yesterday as work with the director Manoel de Oliveira has shaped his identity and was responsible for the” personal and professional direction “. The actress, who debuted in film at age 17 in “cannibals” (1988), said in a statement that was with Manoel de Oliveira who learned “to love cinema, to recognize the beautiful and thinking about the power of time” .
“My love for Manoel transcends the artistic sharing. This is an insurmountable loss, but the memory will always makes me happy. I was an unlikely actress. Today it is my Master and I his muse, “he said.
After” The Cannibals “, Leonor Silveira Oliveira participated in other films like” Valley Abraham, “” The Divine Comedy “,” The Convent “,” Party “,” Mirror Oz “,” Singularities of a blond girl “and” The Gebo and the Shadow. “
” The Manoel challenged the time, challenged the great god Kronos in his life and in his work. (… ) The time also gave the Manoel wisdom not to let break the sad history repeats, without allowing the world forget that the creative freedom there is no room for compromise, “he said.
published 15:21 – April 3 ’15
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