Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments. This is how Armando meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins a tentative courtship. But soon a rift grows between the siblings and, spurred by Armando’s exaggerated stories about his nascent relationship, Beatriz begins experiencing aural hallucinations that can only be remedied through music and, finally, the love of a stranger. Pinto made this impassioned fairy tale as part of a series of films about the four elements. - FilmLinc

Documentário biográfico sobre a vida e a obra do cineasta Manoel de Oliveira, baseado em entrevistas e depoimentos do próprio, bem como de familiares, amigos e especialistas na sua obra, intercalados com imagens de arquivo dos seus filmes. Exibido na RTP no dia em que o realizador completou 99 anos de idade.

Documentário biográfico sobre a vida e a obra do cineasta Manoel de Oliveira, baseado em entrevistas e depoimentos do próprio, bem como de familiares, amigos e especialistas na sua obra, intercalados com imagens de arquivo dos seus filmes. Exibido na RTP no dia em que o realizador completou 99 anos de idade.

Portuguese television series

Manoel de Oliveira has been, and still is, the world's oldest active director. Born a little over 100 years ago, he shows no signs of slowing down, and is planning to release a book of poems. In this edition of Cinéma, de notre temps, Manoel de Oliveira who was then writing his own version of Madame Bovary ("Vale Abraão"), accepts an invitation to spend a week with his comparatively young colleague Paulo Rocha to discuss his work. You'll learn among other things how a motor racing champion became one of the greatest directors, and you'll suspect Oliveira is blushing like a 15-year old virgin when Leonor Silveira enters the frame!

1996 film by Manoel de Oliveira

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.