The film world pays last respects to his dean, Manoel de … – El Universal (Venezuela)

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Friday April 3, 2015 11:40 a.m.

LISBON, 3 Apr 2015 (AFP) – The world of film yielded a final tribute Friday to his dean, Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, who died 106 years after a long career that took him to the silent film digital age.

In a final posthumous nod, director bequeathed an unpublished autobiographical feature film shot in 1982, “The visit or Memoirs and Confessions” which will be unveiled to the public throughout the month of April.

In the presence of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho and numerous personalities of culture, film legend will be buried in the afternoon in Porto, his hometown, in northern Portugal.

death of the longest filmmaker has sparked a wave of excitement in the world of cinema. And the Portuguese government declared two days of national mourning in honor of whom helped to shine the Portuguese culture in the world.

“We will miss a great man and a great filmmaker who did much to Portugal, “said one of his grandsons, actor Ricardo Climb, arrived Thursday night to wake held in the convent of the Dominican parents in Oporto.

The Portuguese artist worked on several films his grandfather, “Je rentre à la maison” (Homecoming, 2001), where Michel Piccoli plays an old actor who questions the loneliness, death and old age after losing his family.

“He rolled almost all the films he wanted and managed to work up its 106 years. 15 days ago, I was still on the ball for a last play,” he told reporters.

With this latest project unfinished, his film will be “O Velho do Restelo” (“Old Restelo”, 2014), which inspired the epic poem “The Lusíadas” by Luis de Camoes, bringing to the screen the great discoveries of the Portuguese navigators.