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Palavra e Utopia (2000)
Oliveira at his "best"
Palavra e Utopia? what can i say?..it's Oliveira as His Best, static, no action, boring, all of that multiplied by 10000.
I can only think of two good films by Oliveira; "Anikí-Bobó"a, one of the best films made in the 40's in europe, and i think, the best in Portugal ever,and(if you really are a Oliveira fan) "Vale Abraão" Starring like in all the Oliveira's films in the last 15 years the fantastic Leonor Silveira.
I, like most of the portuguese population can't understand any logical reason for the success Olíveira's films have, amongst the cinema community(movie makers, festival organizers, critics etc), nor any reason for the production of his films, to be subsidized by the government(all of them), there are dozens of movie makers in portugual that have to wait years to get a film done, some of them, are brilliant, Oliveira, gets all the help, and honestly, he does not deserve any.
Les galapiats (1970)
The most fascinating television series to be broadcast in Portugal in the 1970's
One of my favourite shows ever, eight 28 minutes episodes, great fun and adventure, i know that most of the Portuguese over 30 years of age still remember some of the scenes and the opening music theme. I believe that this show has influenced the way we played our games in the 70's and eighties, made us more inventive, this show was repeated on Portuguese television( back then there was only ONE Portuguese T.V. Station) several rimes, from the early seventies until 1984. The scene where "cowboy) falls from the Castell's walls, the scene inside the Cave, the saving of "Marion" and the Final scene, are probably the most emblematic television scenes for a whole generation of Portuguese, and i Presume Belgiums.