A compelling film of Manoel de Oliveira about the golden age. A personal view on the life of an actor in the end of this career, with the interpretation of the magnificent Michel Piccoli.
Speaking of "going home" is talking about a very personal film by Manuel de Oliveira. This film tells the story of an actor in a downward phase of his life. It is the route of the man who lost almost everything, his child, hisb family, his friends, to whom nothing remains but his grandson. It is his hope, his lifesaving and it is who he clings so he wont be lost in his pain. I choose this movie because it traces the story of a man who sees this weaknesses due to time and he doesn’t gives up. Not an easy film I know. You already thinking another boring film of Manuel de Oliveira. Yeah. To put an end once and for all with that typical phrase associated with the centenary man, I'll make my own the words of my professor of television, surnamed also curiously, Oliveira that explained to our class in a very simple way the genius of the filmmaker and I think many of you already know.
Manuel de Oliveira uses only one camera on a following scene. I will explain and blame the Americans. Take the case of Steven Spielberg, this filmmaker does what? Raises several cameras at the most unimaginable and impossible spots to shoot a single scene. Then all those little segments are assembled in a single scene that results in such a hellish persecution that we love and in a breathtaking speed, because the idea of speed results of these various points that were previously filmed, cut and pasted. What makes our most misunderstood filmmaker? For the same scene, puts a single camera and the actors are interacting in a single space before the lens. The result is a sequence that seems slow because we are already accustomed to speed printed by Mr. Spielberg and his colleagues.
And why time does not seem to pass in the films of Oliveira, we must recall our own everyday lives. If I shoot all the actions of my day with a camera, without cutting what is the end result? An Oliveira is not a for sure! But neither is a hallucinatory masterpiece. And this is also the genius of Oliver, he forces us to be aware of the time. Time passes as it has to pass, slow and sure. And remember on this theme, of time passing, a book by Umberto Eco, "the name of the rose." It is the story of a very special Franciscan monk who tries to discover the author of a series of deaths in a monastery, but where to establish the analogy with Oliveira? In terms of temporal notion, the author describes by chapter only a parcial time of the day of the friars, because as he states in the preface, in the medieval ages time was mesured by sunrise and sunset. They had a lower sense of urgency. People lived more. Now today, we run against time. You undestand now Manuel de Oliveira? His films are to be savored like fine wine. Calmly and unhurriedly. I urge you to rediscover the filmmaker, but this time without the switch on your hand and without getting up from the chair. Go, see it and will like it. Good movie!
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