Leonor Silveira
Nacimiento : 1970-10-28, Lisbon, Portugal
Historia
Leonor da Silveira Moreno e Lemos Gomes is a Portuguese film actress who made her film debut in The Cannibals for director Manoel de Oliveira in 1988. She has appeared in most of Oliveira's films since then.
Dona Berta
A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.
Elisa
In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.
In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where independentist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
Un giallo postmoderno que secuestra nuestras mentes y sentidos para introducirnos en el mundo de Candide, un imperturbable y seductor asesino en serie que una noche se topa con una mujer que acaba de saltar de un edificio y que le pide un último beso antes de morir. Instante que capta una cámara y que le convierte en un fenómeno en las redes, empezando así una huida hacia adelante de incierto fin. Un film de imaginario subversivo, fetichista y surrealista de Carlos Conceição ("Serpentário") una de las voces más excitantes del cine portugués contemporáneo, con cameo de Leonor Silveira, actriz icónica del cine de Oliveira.
Dona Romilda
The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.
Júlia
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
Dona do Bordel
“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho
Mãe
Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
João still lives at home with his parents. With absolutely no idea what to do with his life, he leaves the city centre to hang out in the outskirts. The abandoned factory where he spends his days is the lingering echo of a better past. What lies ahead seems worse as João comes face to face with the failure of youth.
Sofia
Ambientada en el siglo XIX. Un honrado y pobre patriarca se sacrifica para salvar la vida de su hijo, un fugitivo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mãe
Penúltimo largometraje de Manoel de Oliveira, que esta vez se divierte con una película de fantasmas en la que un fotógrafo emprende un viaje alucinado después de retratar a la hija muerta de los propietarios de un hotel. Sin caer en la nostalgia del que sabe que la visita de la Parca está proxima, el director nos invita a un viaje mágico en el que la realidad y la ficción se funden para darnos a entender que la vida y la muerte son una y la misma cosa. Contada con la sonrisa perpetua en los labios, la aventura de Isaac mantiene el encanto y la frescura del cine de la época silente, pero no su característica ingenuidad. Oliveira que, como el mismísimo Diablo, sabe más por viejo que por diablo, como él se divierte, manejando como un titiritero al desdichado fotógrafo.
Woman on Train
De camino al Algarve, un hombre decide contarle a una compañera de viaje el amor más grande y más trágico de su vida. Trabaja como contable para su tío en Lisboa. Desde el balconcito de su oficina puede ver la ventana de la casa enfrente, donde vive una chica joven a la que le gusta pararse frente a la ventana refrescándose con un abanico chino. Él se enamora de ella a primera vista, pero su tío no aprueba sus sentimientos.
Narrator
A tribute documentary to Manoel de Oliveira, on occasion of his 100th birthday.
Mãe
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 "Cristóvão Colon Era Português".
Thanks
38 años después de "Belle de jour" de Luis Buñuel, dos personajes de la película vuelven a cruzarse con el misterio de un secreto que sólo conoce el personaje masculino y cuya revelación es imprescindible para el personaje femenino. Aunque ella le evita, él sigue sus pasos hasta que finalmente consigue que le preste atención al confesarle su intención de revelarle el secreto. Fijan una cita, una cena durante la cual ella, ahora viuda, aguarda la esperada revelación: qué es lo que él le dijo a su marido cuando éste estaba mudo y paralítico por un disparo efectuado por un amante de ella. La situación es tensa y ella termina sin saber qué es lo que realmente pasó. Se trata de la venganza de él porque la mujer nunca le permitió poseerla.
Alfreda
Luciano, sale de prisión y es llevado por su hermano, Flórido, a casa de Alfreda, donde trabajará como sirviente. Alfreda le dice que su mayor deseo es que se le aparezca la virgen, lo que deja a Luciano admirado. Además de todo, ahora la rica señora viene con sus pretensiones sublimes. ¿No le bastaba con tener un Aston Martin y un Jaguar aparcado a la puerta de casa, ni tener diez vestidos para cada estación? Todo fue culpa del profesor Heschel, o de quien fuera… Ir más allá de la promesa sería una herejía. Alfreda dijo que no descansaría mientras no viera a Maria y le hiciera unas cuantas preguntas. Filipe Quinta, el Falsificador, afirma tener la solución. Sin embargo, Bahia, su marido, escuchaba música…
Rosa Maria
Rosa María, una profesora de Historia de la Universidad de Lisboa, emprende con su hija María Joana un crucero por el Mediterráneo que las llevará desde Pompeya a Atenas, pasando por Estambul y Egipto. Al final, debe reunirse con su marido en Bombay, desde donde saldrán de vacaciones. Descubre así parajes que sólo conocía a través de los libros. Durante el crucero, conoce a tres mujeres y a un hombre que le producen una profunda impresión: una prestigiosa empresaria francesa, una famosa modelo italiana ya retirada, una actriz y profesora de canto griega y un americano de origen polaco, que es el capitán del barco. Las cuatro cenan con el capitán, y cada una habla en su lengua materna, aunque todos comprenden lo que quiere decir; se reproduce así una Torre de Babel idílica. Sin embargo, cuando se dirigen hacia el Golfo Pérsico, ocurre algo que perturbará la cena.
Vanessa
Aunque Antonio pertenece a una rica familia y José es hijo de la sirvienta, han compartido su infancia bajo la protectora mirada de la criada, atenta a sus mínimos gestos. Con el paso de los años el amor estrechará los lazos entre ellos dos: Antonio se casa con Camila, de la cual José siempre ha estado enamorado, y tiene por amante a la peligrosa Vanessa, socia de José en oscuros e inconfesables negocios. El diablo interviene y se burla cruelmente de la criada que siempre ha intentado en vano conjurar la mala suerte. La trama de estos cuatro destinos entrecruzados pasará por las llamas del infierno.
Vamp
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Marie
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
Queen Christina
Siglo XVII. El padre jesuita Antonio Vieira es obligado a comparecer ante el Tribunal del Santo Oficio en Coimbra. Una serie de intrigas a sus espaldas le han colocado en una situación complicada tras la muerte de su amigo, el rey Joao IV. Ante los jueces hará un repaso de su vida, empezando por su juventud en Brasil y su papel como adalid de los indios nativos.
La religieuse
La señorita De Chartres ha sufrido su primer desengaño amoroso. Una noche, una amiga de su madre le presenta a un médico de gran reputación, Jacques de Clèves. Este se enamora de ella, y ambos se casan, a pesar de que ella no le corresponde en su amor. En cambio, un cantante de moda sí hace nacer en ella este sentimiento. La lucha entre su matrimonio y sus sentimientos desembocarán en un callejón sin salida para la nueva señora de Clèves.
Suzy
Película inspirada en tres obras de muy diferente naturaleza cuyas historias se hilvanan con ingenio. En la primera un padre anima a su hijo a suicidarse para evitar la decrepitud. En la segunda, situada en el Oporto de los años 30, Suzy es una prostituta que se debate entre la vida y la muerte. En la última, un amigo le cuenta al playboy que se ha enamorado de Suzy la vida de una joven campesina, Fisalina, que un buen día descubre que tiene los dedos de oro.
Self
En 1996, Marcello Mastroianni se dispuso a recordar el pasado, frente a la realizadora Anna Maria Tató, la mujer que compartió con él los veintidós últimos años de su vida. El resultado es este repertorio de anécdotas, confesiones y memorias narradas por el protagonista en primera persona. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fanny
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter. A girl photo journalist profits to stay the extra-needed days for repair, to visit the island - and eventually she'll become part of complex relationships among some of the secluded people of the island. Also, a yacht lost in the high seas in 1947 reappears from the misty horizon 50 years later - to unite Fanny and João, a contemporary navigator.
Judite
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
Leonor
This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden party in a lovely villa in the Azores held by Rogerio and Leonor for handsome, middle-aged Michel and his mistress Irene, a noted Greek movie star. The guests aren't there long before an obvious attraction between Leonor and Michel prompts them to head for a private beach (their tryst, if there was one, occurs off-camera). Five years later, the foursome again meet for a garden party and once again they pair off after spending much time discussing gender differences, emotion, social insight and exchanging witty bon mots.
Piedade
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
Black and White Woman
Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.
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…
Ema Cardeano Paiva
Ema es una mujer de una belleza desafiante, y no sólo para Carlos, su marido, con quien se casó sin amor. Su gusto por el lujo y lo refinado, las ilusiones que tiene por la vida, el deseo que inspira a los hombres... todo ello le hace valedora del sobrenombre "La pequeña Bavary".
This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
Leonor
Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments. This is how Armando meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins a tentative courtship. But soon a rift grows between the siblings and, spurred by Armando’s exaggerated stories about his nascent relationship, Beatriz begins experiencing aural hallucinations that can only be remedied through music and, finally, the love of a stranger. Pinto made this impassioned fairy tale as part of a series of films about the four elements. - FilmLinc
Amazona
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
Eva
En una "Casa de Enajenados", se entrecruzan personajes perseguidos por ideas obsesivas como personas alucinadas. Cada cual a su manera tomándose unos por figuras bíblicas, tales como: los Fariseos, Adán, Eva, Jesús, Lázaro, Marta y María, otros como personajes de romance, como Raskolnikov y Sónia de “Crimen y Castigo”, o Ivan y Aliocha de los “Hermanos Karamazov”; otro que encarna al Filósofo del “Anti-Cristo”, y otro que se cree personificar al Profeta de la “Salvación del Mundo”.
Tethys
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973.
Margarida
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.