Glória de Matos

100세의 나이가 된 포르투갈의 거장 올리베이라 감독의 작품. 오랜 경험과 그만의 분위기가 담긴 이번 작품 역시 우리의 기대를 저버리지 않는다. 이번 작품에서는 삼촌의 사무실에서 회계 경리로 일하는 한 젊은이의 사랑과 성공에 대한 이야기가 펼쳐진다. 주인공 마카리오는 사무실 유리창을 통해 보이는 한 여인을 사랑하게 된다. 두 사람은 서로 사귀게 되고 결혼하려고 하지만, 매번 다른 장애물이 나타나면서 사랑하는 그녀와 결혼하려는 그의 꿈은 점점 멀어지게 된다.

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime pretensions. Isn't it enough for her to have an Aston Martin and a Jaguar in the garage and ten different dresses per season? It was all professor Heschel's fault. Or someone else's. Anyway, to go beyond the promise is heresy. Alfreda said that she wouldn't rest until she saw the Virgin and made her some questions. Filipe Quinta, the Forger, says he has a solution. Meanwhile, Bahia, her husband, listens do music.

Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire.

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, a father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a lover.

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.

강박적이고 이기적인 사랑의 광기를 절제된 형식 속에 밀어붙이는 극단의 러브스토리. 브라질의 독립으로 포르투갈 국정이 불안한 시절, 호세 아우구스토와 카밀로는 프란시스카를 두고 삼각관계를 이룬다. 프란시스카는 귀족 호세 아우구스토와 결혼하지만 정작 그의 사랑은 고문에 가까운 치기 어린 것으로 드러난다.

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.