A face as a mirror of fate: the death of the Portuguese … – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          Manoel de Oliveira in December 2008 in Lisbon during the filming of “peculiarities of a young blonde “
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

From rich, ripe especially experienced actors, it is sometimes said that they could bring to the emergency telephone book in a staged reading to life. As Manoel de Oliveira in his “Divine Comedy” with tear-wet face made aloud from a book his leading actress Maria de Medeiros, 1991, the director was experienced, mature and old as the hills: born in 1908 in Porto, he had already been active in the silent film era and had taken its place in the world in a number of occupations that fit well to this turbulent early days of cinema art, from racing to acting.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                             

. Author: Dietmar Dath, born in 1970, editor of the features section of Follow:

“Aniki Bóbó” (1942) created the Portuguese an early work of what we, as you would for an essentially Italian invention holds, usually “Neorealism” lists, but what the narrowing of the cinematic gaze on the photographic reproduction of social reality says on this label, Oliveira has not signed – its spectrum was far enough from the documentary (“O Pão”, 1959) to the born of rich imagination Historical (“No, the ephemeral glory of dominance”, 1990), the entire spectrum of the film by the own objective in the subjective canceling view filtering.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                      

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“On the banks of the River” (1993) that the notoriously short-term memory of the present as Oliveira’s main work considered, lives like all his movies especially from as safe as sympathetic directing actors; who wants to see how director makes a face not only a window to the soul, but the mirror of a whole complex constellation of characters and destinies, consider the fate of Leonor Silveira as Ema in this movie – or even the reading sequence in the middle of the “Divine Comedy “. This Thursday Manoel de Oliveira has died at the age of 106 years.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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On the death of Manoel de Oliveira

A face to the mirror of fate

From Dietmar Dath

His first work was a silent film, his last, he turned in age of 104 years: The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira died.

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