The French Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, today paid tribute to Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira , died today in Lisbon a few months after celebrating its 106th birthday.
“Old age was for him the harvest time, which continued to receive the fruits of a lifetime of meditation and contemplation, a life of the poet,” noted the minister in a statement also expressed condolences to their families and friends.
Pellerin said that was the dean of the filmmakers in activity and “a creator of a fascinating energy,” which appeared in ‘ La chanson de Lisboa ‘, spoken first film which was shot in Portugal, though, Of course, became known worldwide as one of the biggest names in cinema “.
“His work is deeply marked by literature and theater in his country”, although it was an adaptation of “ Madame Bovary ” (Gustave Flaubert) which imposed its name outside of Portugal and “offered also a magnificent adaptation “of another great French text,” Le soulier of satin “, a masterpiece of Paul Claudel.
In addition, “La Lettre”, a film inspired by “The Princess of Cleves” (better known as Madame Lafayette seventeenth century novel Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne,) gave the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1999, said the minister.
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