Maria Isabel de Oliveira
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An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.
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The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A commission by Serralves Foundation to Regina GuimarĂŁes and Saguenail, and constructed after an unpublished interview with Luis Miguel Cintra, this film is the result of a long and painstaking exercise of selecting and editing excerpts from films by Manoel de Oliveira in which Cintra participates as an actor. In this way, The Life of Mirrors is a reflective, retrospective essay film, which opens the Carte Blanche, thus establishing a gateway to Luis Miguel Cintra's cinematographic and cinephile career.
The Life of Mirrors

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese. Inspired by the book "CristĂłvĂŁo Colon Era PortuguĂŞs".
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
The Satin Slipper

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Porto of My Childhood

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about the figure of his father, his first experience of cinema as an actor, his past as a racing driver, his first technical experiences…
Oliveira, l'architecte

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.
Nice - À propos de Jean Vigo

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.