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Manoel de Oliveira

By Randal Johnson
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By Randal Johnson
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Understanding the iconoclastic work of a lifelong cinematic pioneer

Manoel de Oliveira's eighty-five year career made him a filmmaking icon and a cultural giant in his native Portugal. A lifelong cinematic pioneer, Oliveira merged distinctive formal techniques with philosophical treatments of universal themes—frustrated love, aging, nationhood, evil, and divine grace—in films that always moved against mainstream currents.

Randal Johnson navigates Oliveira's massive feature film oeuvre. Loca...

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