A Talking Picture
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 5, 2005
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve & Irene Papas | |
Performer: | Leonor Silveira & Stefania Sandrelli | |
Directed by | Monoel de Oliviera |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira again shows himself to be a master of the medium with this sharply cut gem of a film about a mother and daughter sailing the Mediterranean.
New York Times
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Oliveira establishes a sense of timelessness only to catch his audience up short with a film that ultimately could scarcely be a more timely comment on the world in which we live.
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Los Angeles Times
Only someone in his golden years could have made something as profound and as devastating as A Talking Picture, and only Oliveira could have made it as good as this.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 3/4 --
The freeze-frame finale is a stunner.
New York Post
Talking is about all that happens here.
Los Angeles CityBeat
Rating: A- --
It's an engrossing pic that speaks to our hearts and minds, as it leaves us with an unsettling feeling about both the past and present.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
A veteran filmmaker's moment of reflection and didacticism, and one supposes he's earned it.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Product Description:
A contemporary Odyssey from Portugal's finest cineaste, Manuel de Oliveira, this quiet, stirring drama of subtly epic proportions was made when director Oliveira was 96-years-old. Beautiful young history professor Rosa Maria (Oliveira veteran Leonor Silveira) is escorting her precocious eight-year-old daughter Maria Joana (Filipa de Almeida) on a cruise from their native Portugal to Bombay. The first half of the film is a history lesson illustrated through dialectical exchange between the two. Prompted by tourist attractions in France, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, Rosa weaves together a narrative of myth, legend, and fact, often blurring the line that separates them. The second half of the film is dominated by one long dinner conversation, when Rosa joins the captain of her ship (John Malkovitch, BEING JOHN MALKOVITCH, KLIMT) at his table. They are also accompanied by a successful French executive (Catherine Deneuve, DANCER IN THE DARK, 8 WOMEN), a former Italian model (Stefania Sandrelli), and a Greek actress (Irene Papas). As their discussion unfolds, with each speaking in his or her native language, the ship moves toward a startling conclusion that will reveal the director's bold message about the contemporary global community.
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Product Info
- UPC: 738329039820
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