Released Date:
2002-09-11
Languages:
Portuguese
Countries:
France, Portugal
Runtime:
133 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (307 Reviews)
Director:
Manoel de OliveiraGenres:
DramaAgustina Bessa-Luès (novel)
Manoel de Oliveira
Jacques Parsi (collaboration)
Jèlia Buisel (collaboration)
Antènio Costa (collaboration)
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Released Date:
2007-04-11
Languages:
French
Countries:
Portugal, France
Runtime:
68 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (821 Reviews)
Director:
Manoel de OliveiraBelle toujours occurred to me unexpectedly and, as I had the will to pay my tribute to Luis Buèuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, I was happy to have found a way to do so, perhaps the best, and I started working. What is it about? Taking two of the strange characters from the film Belle de Jour, and make them relive, thirty eight years later, in the strangeness of a secret which was only in the possession of the masculine character and a knowledge that had become crucial to the female character. Thus, passed this time, they meet again. She tries to avoid him by all means. But he stalks her and eventually manages to gain her attention with the intention of revealing the secret that he alone can unfold. They set a meeting, a dinner, where she expects that all will be revealed. During dinner, she, now a widow, awaits the expected revelation: what he had told her husband while he was mute and paralytic because of a gunshot wound fired by a lover of hers. The situation is tense and she ends up in despair without being able to find out what in truth happened. He is satisfied in his sadism and in his particular revenge from the ways of that woman, who deep down desired him but whose haughty ways never allowed him to possess her.
Released Date:
2010-10-22
Languages:
Portuguese, French
Countries:
Portugal, France
Runtime:
127 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (360 Reviews)
Director:
Eugène GreenGenres:
DramaA young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
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