“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho
João Botelho
Director
João Botelho
Narrator (voice)
Mariana Dias
Rapariga das Luvas Brancas
António Durães
Pai
Ângela Marques
Mãe
Maria João Pinho
Irmã
Leonor Silveira
Dona do Bordel
Marcello Urgeghe
Cliente
Miguel Nunes
Jovem Bonito
Miguel Lopes Rodrigues
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Maria by Callas73%
The Class of ‘9271%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Directed by John Ford70%
Sidney70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Diego Maradona73%
Being James Bond77%
Love, Antosha74%
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me60%
Cameraperson67%
My Mom Jayne79%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
McQueen74%
Pelé72%
Fuck64%
Elstree 197661%
