Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me

Manoel de Oliveira lived for over a century – the century of cinema. Another Portuguese director delivers the ultimate present to a beloved friend, by following the thread that the late fi lmmaker lost somewhere in the labyrinth of creation. Having an old photograph that was taken 36 years ago as his starting point and rewriting a story that was left behind by the maestro with the longest career in cinema, Botelho metaphysically converses with his master, thus leading us through his method and his extraordinary cinematographic inventions.
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Script: Joao Botelho written from the story “The Girl with the Gloves” by Manoel de Oliveira
Cinematography: Joao Botelho
Editing: Joao Braz
Sound: Paulo Abelho
Music: Nicholas McNair
Production: Ar de Filmes
Producers: Alexandre Oliveira
Narration: Joao Botelho
Format: Color-B&W
Production Country: Portugal
Production Year: 2016
Duration: 81
Contact: Portugal Film portugalfilm@indielisboa.com
Awards
Joao Sampaio Award – Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife 2016, Brazil

Joao Botelho

He was born in Lamego, in 1949. In 1974, he dropped out of the 5th year of a mechanical engineering course to enroll in the National Conservatory Cinema School. He worked as a newspaper cinema critic and established the film magazine "M".