Premiere at the Port unpublished biography of Manoel de Oliveira
The director had deposited a copy in the Portuguese Cinematheque, leaving stipulated that the film should only take public view after his death
A month after the death of director Manoel de Oliveira, opening Monday at the Port the unpublished biographical documentary “Visit or memories and confessions”, shot in 1982 to be shown only posthumously.
The exhibition, free entry into two sessions, will take place at the Rivoli Municipal Theatre. On Tuesday, the film will be shown at the Portuguese Cinematheque, in Lisbon, and later this month will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
The director had deposited a copy in the Portuguese Cinematheque, leaving stipulated that the film should only take public view after his death.
“Cinema is my passion and have always sacrificed everything to the possibility to make my films,” said Manoel de Oliveira in the first minutes of this film, which ran in 1981, when he was 73, in the house where he lived in Port for over forty years.
This house is the stage and the tone for the documentary, which has dialogues written by Agustina Bessa-Luís, said Diogo Doria and Teresa Madruga. The actors give voice to a couple who wanders around the room and never intersects with Manoel de Oliveira.
The director made this documentary when I was planning “Non or vain glory of sending”. After that, still made more than twenty films, including “Divine Comedy,” “Valley Abraham” and “The Convent”.
In just over an hour, Oliveira talk about their ancestors, addresses the relationship with death and suffering explains the fascination with women and remembers the days he spent in prison after being arrested and interrogated by the PIDE in the 1960s.
The film is dedicated to his wife, Maria Isabel, “a reality without subterfuge,” which appears for few minutes to pick flowers and to talk about the relationship with the director.
Manoel de Oliveira died April 2 at the Port, to 106 years.
Lusa
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