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Casa de Lava 1994
A Beckettian tale of loneliness and isolation filtered though the surrealistic lens of Tourneur (especially I Walked With a Zombie). To Costa, the roots of existential despair exists in the trauma that surrounds us.
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Taipei Story 1985
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there"
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Manoel’s Destinies 1984
An impressionistic collage of images and text, structured by the limitless yet incomplete imagination of a child, filtered through the surrealist game of exquisite corpse, and colored by Ruiz's affinity for the Borgesian and the baroque.
*Recently became aware of a 4-part Portuguese version (Adventure in Madeira)
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Francisca 1981
Evidently the progenitor for De Oliveira's modernized theatrical aesthetic later witnessed in Non, ou a Vã Gloria de Mandar and Abraham's Valley, Francisca indeed exalts itself as both baroque and attenuated. "It is as if Jean-Marie Straub had collaborated with Max Ophuls," Dave Kehr has opined. A dark tale of frustrated desires and failed illusions, it suggests an ontological investigation of the cinematic experience in the context of ancient arts.
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