Eighteenth screening in the film programme Manoel de Oliveira e o Cinema Português, held in conjunction with the third part of the exhibition of the same name. The screening will feature Manoel de Oliveira’s “Inquietude” (1998), with an introduction by professor and researcher Carlos Natálio.

INQUIETUDE | ANXIETY

Manoel de Oliveira | POR, FRA, ESP, SUI | 1998 | 108'

Three stories linked by a shared sense of anxiety:

THE IMMORTALS

They are famous men, showered with honors, praised by all... but old, very old. And so, to spare his son from the decrepitude and decay that are not far off, the father urges him to commit suicide. Which will not be easy...

SUZY

As the curtain falls on this tragic tale, we are in the 1930s, in Porto, where Suzy, a “cocotte,” lies on the brink of death on an operating table, and sums up her life thus: “All of this is nothing but a detail.”

MOTHER OF A RIVER

To console the “dandy” with whom she had just lived a love story, a friend tells him the story of Fisalina, a peasant woman who one day discovers she has fingertips of gold: for a thousand years she will be the mother of a river...