Fiction
Francisca
Manoel de Oliveira
P 1981
167 min
V'08
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The based-on-truth tale of doomed love narrates the moth-like convergence of two wealthy young men around a famous female flame of the nineteenth century. De Oliveira is a mischievous delighter in ritual - his tirelessly talkative characters group themselves into velvet-rich conversational tableaux, sometimes looking at each other, mostly gazing out to camera in an Old Master trance, as if Velásquez stood off-screen, palette in hand. His movies have a slow Protean pulse, a surging grandeur and a power to build a tragic breaking-point without any showy climaxes. (Nigel Andrews)
Credits
- Teresa Menezes - Francisca / Fanny
- Mário Barroso - Camilo Castelo Branco
- Rui Mendes - Manuel Negrão
- Paulo Rocha - Doctor
- Sílvia Rato - Maria Owen
- Glória de Matos - Rita Owen
- Diogo Dória - José Augusto
- Manoel de Oliveira based on the novel «Fanny Owen» by Agustina Bessa Luís
- Elso Roque
- Jean-Paul Mugel
- Monique Rutler-Bairrão
- João Paes
- António Casimiro
- Rita Azevedo Gomes
V.O. Filmes
Gemini Films
35 mm
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