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01/26/06
A Talking Picture (2003)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 17 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Synopsis: A contemporary Odyssey from Portugal's finest cineaste, Manuel de Oliveira, this quiet, stirring drama of subtly epic proportions was made when director Oliveira was 96-years-old. Beautiful young history professor Rosa Maria (Oliveira veteran Leonor Silveira) is escorting her... [More]
Genre: Sports/Recreation
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Irene Pappas, Stefania Sandrelli, Leonor Silveira
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Though Oliveira's stylistic approach may be more relaxed and laid back in tune with seasoned years, his keen and cutting insights point to a mind on fire, as if on mental Viagra.
03/26/07
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07/29/05
A veteran filmmaker's moment of reflection and didacticism, and one supposes he's earned it.
03/27/05
Oliveira establishes a sense of timelessness only to catch his audience up short with a film that ultimately could scarcely be a more timely comment on the world in which we live.
03/18/05
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Extremely slow and won't be for those with no appetite for lengthy, self-serious monologues, but it also has a sharp, personal edge to it.
03/11/05
Not only is this approach boring but also it is an artificial contrivance that leaves little for the actors to do but regurgitate facts in an encyclopedic way.
03/10/05
Feels like cinema's grand old man is leaving us a legacy with grace and compassion.
03/10/05
A Talking Picture might be an apt title, but it does not mean that it is automatically a picture worth contemplating.
03/03/05
A thoughtful, provocative effort that makes up for its narrative failings with its astute philosophical musings.
12/27/04
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A devastatingly simple portrait of the ways in which we lull ourselves into believing that knowledge, academic or worldly, is our inviolate defense against annihilation.
12/19/04
This intermittently interesting symbolic tour through European history once again places ideas over aesthetics and technique.
12/10/04
The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira again shows himself to be a master of the medium with this sharply cut gem of a film about a mother and daughter sailing the Mediterranean.
12/10/04
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