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Frames, Windows, and Mirrors. Sensing Still Bodies in Films by Manoel de Oliveira

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Király H.
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
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2014
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vol. 8
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issue 1
7-20
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In the case of Oliveira’s Doomed Love (Amor de Perdição, 1978) (an adaptation of the homonymous classic Portuguese novel), Bresson’s model theory provides an adequate theoretical model for a melodrama in which characters, ‘hit by fate,’ are following their destinies as if ‘under hypnosis.’ Besides a typically frontal, iconic representation of bodies thoroughly framed by windows, doors, and mirrors, in this and many other films by Oliveira, the intermedial figure of tableau vivant also reveals the movement-stillness mechanisms of the medium of film by turning, under our eyes, the body into a picture. His Abraham’s Valley (Vale Abraão, 1993) is also relevant for a fetishistic representation of (female) feet and legs. This visual detail, somewhat reminding of Buñuel’s similar obsession, is not only subversive in terms of representation of socio-cultural taboos, but is also providing a compelling sensual experience of both the body and the medium.
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O cineasta e a cidade: Manoel de Oliveira e O Porto

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Branco de Oliveira A.
Studia Iberystyczne
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2014
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vol. 13
521-534
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Manoel de Oliveira brings about a strong, inexplicable and a connection impossible to define to Porto. He casts, in Douro Faina Fluvial (1931), Aniki‑Bóbó (1942), O Pintor e a Cidade (1956), and Porto da minha Infância (2001) a special relationship between this city and the universe of movies. The Porto of Manoel de Oliveira becomes a filmic discourse, an aesthetic journey without boundaries between fiction and documentary. It’s a city established as the architecture of the film becoming the character, title, maximum space of architectural and cinematic reflection. It is a labyrinthine Porto of images, a city transformed by the multiple film cameras from a single Master.
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