Appear in April, at the festival IndieLisboa, and in August, in Locarno, the film now arrives to movie theaters, accompanied by the short film “Rise”, by Pedro Peralta.
João Botelho is the narrator of this film, in which he recalls how he met Manoel de Oliveira, when I was still studying at Film School, elevates the thought of the director, and comments on excerpts from some of the movies that most esteem, such as “Love of destruction”, “Vale Abraão” and “Word and Utopia”.
In the movie, João Botelho recalls some of the explanations of the film that learned from the Olive tree, like this: “If there’s money to shoot the horse, film only the wheel, but the film as well the wheel”.
Despite being a documentary, the film has in it a short fiction, “The girl of the gloves”, which John Botelho rode at the end of 2015 from a story that Manoel de Oliveira told him.
In April, when the film was shown at IndieLisboa, João Botelho, told the Lusa news agency that he wanted to show admiration and passion for the cinema of Manoel de Oliveira, and also to fight against the oblivion, a year after the death of the filmmaker.
in Addition to excerpts from films of Oliveira, of the scenes emblematic of the history of Portuguese cinema, the documentary features a scene from “conversa acabada” (1981), the first `long` by João Botelho, in which Manoel de Oliveira plays the role of a priest.
“As a father, he taught me cinema,” says João Botelho, in the narration of the film.
John Botelho, 67 years old, author of films such as “goodbye”, “The court of the north”, “conversa acabada” and “Movie of the unrest”, he is preparing a feature-length film from “the Pilgrimage”, by Fernão Mendes Pinto.
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