Stars:
Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John MalkovichStoryline
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.User Reviews
Great filmThis is another Great
film of 97year old Portuguese director Manoel De Oliveira (a legend!).
It's incredible how this director still creative is... His stories are
simple and deep. He demonstrates that with a low budget you can always
do strong films, with good lines.
A mother takes her daughter to a
cruise trip through Mediterranean Sea. She teaches her story and gets
in touch with three European women and the ship's captain. Everyone
speaks his own language... That's why it's a "Talking picture", a
meeting among people of several cultures. The dialogue follow the
everyday life. The film seems to be very calm and seems to tell simply a
friendship story, until the final scene... Where we remain totally
surprised.
A small, cultivated and poetic picture, from an European big director.
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