C.W. Winter & Anders Edström 4 / film by Manoel de Oliveira

21 October, 2021 - 19:30
PADDENHOEK

 

On the occasion of this focus, C.W. Winter & Anders Edström composed three programs of films that resonate in different ways with their work. All notes are written by C.W. Winter.

 

In the presence of C.W. Winter & Anders Edström

Amor de Perdição

Manoel de Oliveira
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PT
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1979
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35mm
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261'

The third entry in Oliveira’s Tetralogy. Based on the novel by Camilo Castelo Branco. A major innovation is the presentation of story: off-screen narration often running counter to what is shown. An accretion of complex narrative layering intertwines in a ritual of love, death, and liberation. Heterogenous stylization from real-world locations to overtly artificial stages. Both austere and open to moments of bravura. Strands brought together in a final sequence, the intensity of which brought the Berlin audience to its feet in an extended ovation for the director. One would be hard pressed to find a more beautiful cinematic experience.

 

Film print courtesy of Cinemateca Portuguesa 

Portuguese spoken, English substitles