“Francisca” by Manuel de Oliveira, Anatomy of the Heart – Editing

Part of the so-called “Disappointed Love” tetralogy, the Portuguese director’s masterpiece was filmed in 1981 and is the first great film of cornucopia in a free filmography, released in cinemas.

Young director who turns Francisca In 1981 he was 72 years old. He was born in 1908 and if he was still young, it was because he had filmed little: Salazar’s Portugal since the 1930s, a dictatorship with little interest in avant-garde productions, was not favorable to this rich and big bourgeois director, Catholic scholar and married to Manuel de Oliveira. On “Carnation Revolution” in 1974, work had already begun, and Oliveira had forty years to live and about thirty feature films to shoot.

francisco, Brilliant, sassy and classic, experimental and old-fashioned, in comparison to which any of today’s daring pales in comparison, is the first fully ‘completed’ film by a filmmaker, one who meticulously sets the style and sees the dark madness unfold, laying the solid foundations for Oliveira’s mastery, grounded and invasive, earthy. and ethereal. You must have seen Francisca And we see again at regular intervals the coolness of the mobile phone under the stationary, and the influences under the stationary of the fashion plates. Therefore, the first film is prolific, despite the breathtaking beauty of the previous films, for example those with Francisca Form the so-called “frustrated love” quartet: Past and Present, Benild And The love of doom. It will take