Vale Abraão (1993)

Note Générale:

7,2/10   

Réalisateur:

Manoel de Oliveira

Scénaristes:

Agustina Bessa-Luís (novel)
Manoel de Oliveira (adaptation)

Date de sortie:

1 septembre 1993 (France)

Genre:

Drame

Intrigue:

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Récompenses:

2 wins

Avis des utilisateurs:

A Portuguese modern Madame Bovary

Ensemble

Leonor Silveira	...	Ema Cardeano Paiva
Cécile Sanz de Alba	...	Ema (young)
Luís Miguel Cintra	...	Carlo Paiva
Ruy de Carvalho	...	Paulino Cardeano
Luís Lima Barreto	...	Pedro Luminares
Micheline Larpin	...	Simona
Diogo Dória	...	Fernando Osorio
José Pinto	...	Caires
Filipe Cochofel	...	Fortunato
João Perry	...	Pedro Dossem
Glória de Matos	...	Maria do Loreto
António Reis	...	Semblano
Isabel Ruth	...	Ritinha
Dina Treno	...	Branca
Dalila Carmo	...	Marina (as Dalila Carmo e Sousa)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Abraham Valley (International: English title)
Abraham's Valley (International: English title)
Val Abraham (France)
Valley of Abraham (USA) (festival title)

Durée:

187 min | Portugal:203 min (director's cut)

Pays:

France | Portugal | Switzerland

Langue:

Portugais

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

1,66 : 1

Son:

Dolby

Classification:

Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | UK:PG

Lieux de tournage:

Peso da Regua, Portugal

Société:

Madragoa Filmes

Bande son:

Clair de Lune (Mondschein)

A Portuguese modern Madame Bovary

Well the resemblance of the plot with the Flaubert's novel is very superficial after all. This is much more than a story of bourgeois adultery. It's the story of an intelligent and sensitive young woman brought up in the frame of the society of mid-20th century northern Portugal in an atmosphere of bigotry and social stagnation who marries a man she does not love and whose life has no way out. The plot develops itself in old rural mansions under the eyes of a silent witness, the deaf-and-dumb servant Ritinha who sees everything and understands everything without speaking or intervening by any means but forming with Ema the main character, a strong union of love and mutual understanding. The visual images develop themselves in a slow poetic movement which is Oliveira's favourite. The scenery however, is beautifully located in the Portuguese river Douro one of the most beautiful rivers in the world.