Anxiety (1998)
DVD9 | ISO | PAL 16:9 | Cover | 01:49:18 | 7,17 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Portuguese
Genre: Drama
DVD9 | ISO | PAL 16:9 | Cover | 01:49:18 | 7,17 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Portuguese
Genre: Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Stars: Afonso Araújo, Leonor Araújo, Leonor Baldaque
An anthology film drama featuring three tales linked by the theme of death. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life. Shown out of competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
"Anxiety" marks yet another turning point in the career of Portuguese maestro Manoel de Oliveira –- a three-part omnibus of stories vaguely linked together by the theme of death. A work certain to be of interest to Oliveira's arthouse and festival followings, it is probably too quirky and full of longueurs to be a good intro for new viewers. Without major actors (except for a cameo by Irene Papas), auds will have little to grasp onto apart from the director's reputation.
Still turning out intellectually engaging work at age 89, Oliveira is easy to interpolate into the first episode, "The Immortals." A father who is 80 (the passionate, irascible Jose Pinto) and his son who is 60 (laid-back Luis-Miguel Cintra), both famous doctors, argue about whether or not it is better to die before getting senile. Lensing and dialogue revel in the tale's origins as a stage play by Helder Prista Monteiro, but witty as Pinto and Cintra make the nonstop chatter, the story is terribly, if deliberately, static. A clever ending lightens the mood and provides a surprise transition to "Suzy," set in the 1930 s.
Suzy (Leonor Silveira) and her friend (Rita Blanco) are beautiful young courtesans in the Oporto demimonde. A languidly handsome dandy (Diogo Doria) falls hard for Suzy, who he sees as a sensitive soul, an exploited woman and a real pro in bed. Just before she dies on the operating table, Doria makes her see that her life has offered her everything but happiness. Story by Antonio Patricio is somewhere between Dumas and Proust, while Oliveira's favorite muse, Silveira, lends Suzy a bewitching melancholy and sophisticated, fatalistic perversion.
To console Doria's character, his friend (David Cardoso) tells him the legend of Fisalina (Leonor Baldaque), a girl from a remote mountain village who pays a visit to the "mother of a river" (Papas).
Based on a short story by Oliveira's regular scripter, Agustina Bessa-Luis, "Mother of a River," is an eerie fable about the possibility –- and personal price –- of eternal life. In addition to Papas' intense cameo, it finally gives Renato Berta a chance to do some interesting camerawork in the night scenes of black-cloaked villagers carrying torches and chasing the gold-fingered "witch" out of town.
No strong connecting thread winds through this trio of stories, unless it is an obsession with the encroaching end. From the comic-tragic anxiety of the old doctor who cries, "We're half of what we were!" to the concluding fantasy of merging with nature, "Anxiety" keeps death at a finely literate distance, a good place from which to contemplate it.
This is the masterpiece from the 90-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira who won the Akira Kurosawa lifetime achievement award at the San Franciso International Film Festival in 1994. Inquietude, also known as Anxiety, is a movie in three parts; a one-act play, a short story, and a fable, bringing them all together brilliantly. It may seem talky at first, but there is some genuine thought going on behind the talk, and some of the images are gorgeous.
The first story is a one-act play about a father and son, both famous scientists. The father attempts convince his aging son to kill himself in order to achieve immortality. A character watching that play meets a courtesan named Suzy. He becomes obsessed with defining her and trying to immortalize her. Her response to nearly everything is, "it's a small thing." Finally, that character's best friend tells him the story of "The Mother of a River" and Fisalina, the restless and troubled young girl who can't accept life in her village. She becomes the next Mother of a River, destined to live for 1000 years until the next comes along. In essence, these three very different stories are all about mortality and identity. Oliveira is interested in who we really are and has the experience, the wisdom, and the patience to show it well.
Special Features:
- Making of
- Trailer
- Film and Set stills
- Manoel de Oliveira filmography
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