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A Talking Picture

Original title: Um Filme Falado

  • Movie
  • 2003
  • 1h 36m

Directed by Manoel de Oliveira

6.7

TMDB audience rating
6.7 out of 10 from 50 votes

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Overview

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.

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Cast and crew

  • Leonor Silveira

    Leonor SilveiraRosa Maria

  • Filipa de Almeida

    Filipa de AlmeidaMaria Joana

  • John Malkovich

    John MalkovichComandante John Walesa

  • Catherine Deneuve

    Catherine DeneuveDelfina

  • Stefania Sandrelli

    Stefania SandrelliFrancesca

  • Irene Papas

    Irene PapasHelena

  • Luís Miguel Cintra

    Luís Miguel CintraHimself

  • Ricardo Trêpa

    Ricardo TrêpaOficial

  • Júlia Buisel

    Júlia BuiselAmiga de Delfina

  • David Cardoso

  • Manoel de Oliveira

    Manoel de Oliveira

Director
Manoel de Oliveira
Writer
Manoel de Oliveira
Cinematography
Emmanuel Machuel