MEXICO, DF, (approved) .- Awarded in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who died last Holy Thursday to los106 years, held since 1985 almost one film a year and worked with the most major players, the US John Malkovich, the French Ctherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli, the Italian Marcello Mastroianni and his countrymen Luis Miguel Cintra and Leonor Silveira.
Its producer, Luis Urbano, confirmed the death of filmmaker Oliveira, who was at his home in Porto (Northern Portugal), his hometown. Recall that the director celebrated its 106th birthday with his audience, the brand in Portugal his latest work, the short film O Velho do Restelo (The Old Restelo), inspired by a character from the epic poem The Lusiad, written in the sixteenth century by Luis de Camoes to recount the great maritime discoveries of the Portuguese navigators.
After 105 years directed this short film, which he described as a “reflection on humanity”. The director, who filmed over 50 feature films and documentaries, was hospitalized on several occasions in 2012 due to complications after an infection and did not want to talk about retirement. His film career lasted over 80 years: intimate, difficult, valued exclusively in intellectual circles
He fascinated journalists with lucidity and that coquetry which causes smile
.. Born December 11, 1908, Oliveira was the last survivor of “the beautiful old days of silent movies,” which always referred to nostalgia. His international fame began after his 80.
His father, an industrialist, took him to see the films of Charlie Chaplin and Max Linder. He made his film debut at 20 years of age as an actor in a silent movie, The Miracle of Fatima. By 1931, he shot his first documentary, still dumb. Duoro, fluvial faina (Duero, fluvial job), about the life of workers in the river in his hometown
After he performed the first Portuguese talkie , The Song of Lisbon (1933) and became interested by management. After several documentaries, he joined fiction in 1942, with Aniki-Bobo, on the lives of children in a poor district of Porto.
In the sixties he made his second feature, Act spring, about passion of Christ.
By 1971, Oliveira focused on tetralogy of Amores frustrated. In 1985, he opened Le soulier of Satin (The slipper satin), a fresco of nearly seven hours based on the work of Paul Claudel, winner of the Golden Lion at the film festival in Venice.
When he was in his eighties, he conquered with Je rentre à la maison (Homecoming) (2001), where Piccoli plays a comical old man who questions the loneliness, death and old age after losing his family.
In 2008, the filmmaker received his first Golden Palm at Cannes for an entire career.
Oliveira always understood the film “as a modern cultural event, indispensable necessary” and not as a show less
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