On the bank of the river
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | On the bank of the river |
| Original title | Vale Abraão |
| Country of production | Portugal , France , Switzerland |
| original language | Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 187 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Manoel de Oliveira |
| script | Manoel de Oliveira Agustina Bessa-Luís |
| production | Paulo Branco |
| camera | Mário Barroso |
| cut |
Valérie Loiseleux Manoel de Oliveira |
| occupation | |
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On the banks of the river (Original title: Vale Abraão ) is a Portuguese-French-Swiss film by the director Manoel de Oliveira from 1993.
action
Ema is a woman of enchanting beauty. She marries dispassionately the elderly, wealthy doctor Carlos, and through him enters a world of wealth and luxury. Men desire them, but neither their marriage nor their love affairs can save them from their disappointed illusions and their increasing loneliness.
reception
The Cahiers du cinéma described the film, released in France as Val Abraham , as one of the most beautiful in the world. Again Oliveira filmed a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís . Her 1991 Vale Abraão was inspired by Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary , to which the film also occasionally refers.
In poignant photography, the film tells the story of a beautiful and intelligent woman who is aware of her extraordinary power over men, but who lives in a world determined by men, which denies a deeper meaning. Luxury, dream worlds and playing with men's desires do not save her from disillusionment, and she quickly draws the consequence with shocking sobriety.
Oliveira gathered his favorite actors here (especially Leonor Silveira , Diogo Dória and Luís Miguel Cintra ) and filmed a novel by his favorite writer, which is set in the familiar surroundings of the Douro , the river, which was the subject of his first film in 1931. At the premiere, on May 20, 1993 at the Cannes International Film Festival , the film received ten minutes of applause.
The lexicon of international films describes the film as "a convincing, epic literary film adaptation that is convincing due to its staged unity, which reflects the separation of soul and body as the origin of the pain in life and raises it into a religious dimension." and played film an examination of the traditional upper class of Portugal ”.
The film won various awards, including a. at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the São Paulo International Film Festival .
literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema português 1989-2003 . Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7 .
- Manoel de Oliveira - 100 anos : Book accompanying the 21 DVD box for the 100th birthday. ZON Lusomundo 2008.
- A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese Cinema . Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .
Web links
- On the banks of the river in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Camille Nevers in Cahiers du Cinéma , 469, June 1993.
- ^ A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese Cinema , 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, p. 130.
- ↑ cf. rottentomatoes.com
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1989–2003 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, pp. 623f.
- ↑ On the bank of the river. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .