Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
i like the girl can't stand the guy_he was horrible from the start
Manoel de Oliveira
Filmography
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Centro Historico
Commissioned to promote the sleepy Portuguese city of Guimarães as a 2012 European Capital of Culture, this omnibus curio brings together an illustrious quartet of international cinema auteurs and invites them to roam through picturesque town squares, abandoned industrial...Watch Movie
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The Strange Case of Angelica
A beguiling film from master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA is a magical tale of a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have (except in his dreams). Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the...Watch Movie
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I'm Going Home
Warm, funny, humane and ultimately heartrending, the film is a remarkable and supremely eloquent statement by a magnificent director. Gilbert Valence is a successful theater actor appearing in Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King." He soon learns that his wife, daughter and son-in-law have been killed...Watch Movie
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Oporto of My Childhood
With the freedom of inspiration and the rigor of writing that are his trademarks, Manoel de Oliveira returns to Oporto, the city of his birth. The Oporto of this childhood is a city laden with history, a city of artists and thinkers. And, as in a spiral movement, the film...Watch Movie
Genres
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Comedy / Black Comedy
- Crime / Transgression / Thievery
- Documentary / History
- Drama / Ethnicity
- Drama / Expedition
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Portmanteau
- Drama / Realism / Docudrama
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Drama / Tragedy
- Fantasy / Allegory
- International / European / French
- International / European / Portuguese
Recent Reviews
The Strange Case of Angelica
A ghost story quietly told in the Oliviera manner, without sensationalism and with equal attention to the the mundane life of the "real" world.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
One of the morwe stranger movies we've ever seen. lots of wonderful old Art Nouveau architecture,; not much dialogue, but enough to bring you along to the ending, which was...
Centro Historico
A mixed bag. A touching first part. A perplexing second. An affecting third. And a joke appended as the fourth.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
This was an Adam and Eve parable in a classical, timeless Portugal. Succinct, and yet this was too thinly veiled a film, especially since the tempo was confident for its...