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Past and Present
This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
| Release : | 1972 |
| Rating : | 7.1 |
| Studio : | Centro Português de Cinema (CPC), |
| Crew : | Set Decoration, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Manuela de Freitas Pedro Pinheiro João Bénard da Costa Pedro Efe |
| Genre : | Drama Comedy |
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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
