Álvaro do Carvalhal

Birth : 1844-02-03, Valpaços, Portugal

Death : 1868-04-13

Movies

The Cannibals
Book
This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger (the film out-does even Luis Buñuel in that department), and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
O Visconde
Book
O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.