''Rite of Spring'' (Portuguese: Acto da Primavera) is a
1963
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film directed by
Manoel de Oliveira, his second feature.
The poet and director
António Reis
António Ferreira Gonçalves dos Reis, known as António Reis (27 August 1927 – 10 September 1991), was a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and producer, poet, sculptor and ethnographer. He was married to Margarida Cordeiro, co-director ...
was the film's assistant director, and his influence can be felt deeply throughout it. (The film was included in the film program ''
The School of Reis The School of Reis is a film theory concept relative to the teachings of Portuguese director António Reis, to his work, conceived with his wife Margarida Cordeiro, and to the works of the directors influenced by theirs. It is a pun on the surname ...
'' in 2012.
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Synopsis
The inhabitants of Curalha, a small village in western Portugal, perform the Passion of Jesus every year according to text from about the 16th century, a tradition upon which Oliveira stumbled during the production of a film in 1963. The film is also remembered for "a furious apocalyptic montage that links Christ's death to the violence and lunacy of the Vietnam era".
March 15 - 29 Manoel de Oliveira, or Cinema, the Art of Enigma
Harvard Film School, 1999, subsection "Rite of Spring"
See also
* Docufiction
Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It is a film genre which attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité) a ...
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*1926: '' Moana'' by Robert Flaherty, USA
*1930: '' Maria do Mar'' by Leitão de Barros, Portu ...
* Ethnofiction
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References
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1963 films
Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese drama films
1960s Portuguese-language films
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