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Homage to Manoel de Oliveira at the Cannes Festival

21 mai 1990
02m 04s
Ref. 00173

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Summary :

During the closing ceremony of the 43rd Cannes Festival, Bernardo Bertolucci, president of the jury, pays homage to Manoel de Oliveira and to Andrzej Wajda. Manoel de Oliveira goes up on stage to say a few words.

Media type :
Vidéo
Broadcast date :
21 mai 1990
Source :
France 2
Personnalité(s) :
Manoel (de) Oliveira / Andrzej Wajda / Bernardo Bertolucci / Michel Drucker
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Context

During the friendly welcome that the 1980 Cannes Festival gave him, Manoel de Oliveira declared himself to be "the youngest filmmaker in the world", probably to conjure up honours that can be seen as prematurely posthumous. He is 82 years old and has a long career under his belt, and in front of him as well.

Joining the cinema world at the age of 22, in 1931, thanks to an aesthetic and political feat, he once again worried the Salazar regime with Douro Faina Fluvial, a short, avant-garde, lyrical film about the hard work of labourers along the Douro river in Porto. Leaving cinema aside, he became an athlete, tried acting and worked in his father's factory. Aniki-Bobo (1942) was as badly criticised as his first film since children disobeyed their parents.

He shot very little until Salazar's fall in 1974. In 1981, he adapted Francisca to film, which was written by an author who long inspired him, Agustina Bessa-Luis. Shooting with a small group of loyal actors (Luis Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Leonor Baldaque) he was open to making films abroad, with John Malkovitch in The Convent , Michel Piccoli in I'm Going Home and even Catherine Deneuve in A Talking Picture.

Charlotte Garson

Transcription

Michel Drucker
Now, Bernardo Bertolucci, the jury wished to pay homage - hush, I will ask you to be silent, photographers - the jury wished to honor two of cinema's great figures.
Bernardo Bertolucci
By paying homage to Manoel de Oliveira and Andrzej Wajda, who participated in the festival competition, the jury wished to encourage them in producing new outstanding films. I think that Manoel de Oliveira is in the room.
Michel Drucker
We heard what the president said in his speech to Manoel de Oliveira and Wajda who participated outside of the competition in the festival, and the jury wished to encourage them in producing new outstanding films.
Bernardo Bertolucci
There is nothing because they had not time to prepare something, but it is simply the appreciation of the jury that is being expressed.
Michel Drucker
And the public ovation.
Bernardo Bertolucci
And the public ovation.
Manoel (de) Oliveira
Thank you very much. There is nothing better than the kindness and generosity of the jury and your applause, finally your love for film, an industry in which I am one of the youngest filmmakers in the world, if not the youngest. Thank you very much.
Michel Drucker
Manoel de Oliveira. Homage at Cannes.