Ricardo Trêpa

Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.

New Jorge Monte Real movie

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

A group of tourists arrives to the historical center of Guimarães. The camera goes up over the shoulder of Alfonso Henriques' statue. The first king of Portugal, holding up his sword, demands respect. Nevertheless, from there we see how the group of tourists take over the place and sourround the Conqueror with their cameras.

하울 브란당의 희곡을 영화화한 작품. 아내와 딸과 함께 조용히 살아가는 게보에게는 사실 8년 전 집을 떠난 아들 주앙이 있다. 그런데 어느 날 밤, 주앙이 아무 일도 없었다는 듯이 집으로 돌아오고 이때부터 말로 설명하기 힘든 이상한 긴장감이 발생한다. 한정된 공간 안에서 벌어지는 인물들의 미묘한 심리 변화가 돋보이는 작품. (2014 한국시네마테크협의회 - 마누엘 드 올리베이라 회고전)

늦은 밤, 사진작가 아이작은 결혼 후 며칠 만에 죽어 버린 딸 안젤리카의 마지막 사진을 찍어달라는 갑작스러운 부탁을 받는다. 안젤리카의 시신을 본 아이작은 그녀의 미모에 압도되는데, 그가 카메라 렌즈를 통해 본 그녀는 마치 살아있는 듯하다. 안젤리카와 사랑에 빠진 아이작은 밤낮으로 그녀와의 만남을 이어간다. 제작 당시 이미 100세를 넘겼던 올리베이라는 사진을 통해 예술에 대해 성찰하고, 아름다운 환영들 사이에서 삶과 죽음의 경계, 현실과 초현실의 경계를 유유히 거닌다. 초안은 1946년에, 각본은 1952년에 썼으며, 이후 현대적인 요소들을 가미했다고 한다. (2017년 영화의 전당) 사진사 이작은 한밤중에 한 집안의 부름을 받고 죽은 안젤리카의 사진을 찍다 그녀에게 반해 버린 이작은 렌즈와 사진-이미지 속에서 살아나는 그녀에게서 헤어나지 못하게 되는데…. 포르투갈의 노장 올리베이라 감독의 사랑과 예술에 관한 우화. (2011년 제12회 전주국제영화제)

The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace.

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.

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".

38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her.

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.

A satirical short film about technology.

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.

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth after Jesus digs in the sand, uncovering a large drug stash. Others characters intersecting here include an alcoholic actress, a philandering banker, a general trafficking in arms, priests who close their church and head north as hitchhikers, politicians who watch an all-girl production of Julius Caesar, and beggars who recite a children's story in a huge heap of trash.

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.

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.

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.

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.

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.