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Francie/Portugalsko 2006 / MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA / 70 min. portuguese–french version with english subtitles cast: MICHEL PICCOLI, BULLE OGIER, RICARDO TREPA, LEONOR BALDAQUE, JULIA BUISEL
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The latest film by soon-to-be centenarian Oliveira could be described as a post-modernist intellectual little piece about the unswerving logic of human life, finding its roots in Bunuelesque poetics. In this Oliveira’s fantasque vision, the aged heroine from Bunuel’s film „Belle de jour“ runs across her husband’s old friend. At one point he had yearned terribly for her, but she rejected him. After a number of attempts to avoid an encounter, she finally gives in and has dinner with him. Both hope they may yet uncover the other’s mysteries. Michel Piccoli and Bulle Ogier bring into the film an inner strength and the nostalgia of old age; the enclosed elegant interiors are reminiscent of the bizarrely claustrophobic worlds depicted in numerous Bunuel films.

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