'First session of the new film and talks programme Re-Camões, which proposes a series of filmic representations and re-readings of Luís de Camões, on the occasion of the celebrations for his 500th anniversary. This session will feature a screening of Manoel de Oliveira's ‘Non’ ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (Non, or the Vain Glory of Command, 1990), followed by a conversation between Zulmira Santos, Full Professor at FLUP, and António Preto, director of the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira.


NON OU A VÃ GLÓRIA DE MANDAR
Manoel de Oliveira | POR, ESP, FRA | 1990 | 108'

The history of Portugal seen in the light of its defeats, told by the officer Cabrita to the men of his company in the middle of the colonial war. Or a film about soldiers at war who evoke moments of history, ending with Cabrita's death on 25 April 1974. An essential film about the ‘Non’ in Portuguese history. NON is a word taken from Father António Vieira, who called it a ‘terrible word’. The opening session of this film programme, ‘Non’ is also Manoel de Oliveira's critical deconstruction of the Camões narrative, and he himself called his film "Os Lusíadas" in reverse.