Princípio da Incerteza, O (2002)

Réalisateur:

Manoel de Oliveira

Writers:

Agustina Bessa-Luís (novel)
Júlia Buisel (writer)
(suite)

Release Date:

30 août 2002 (Italy)

Genre:

Drame

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Bourgeoisie | Joan Of Arc | Marriage | Servitude | Uncertainty Principle

Awards:

1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

Mature masterpiece

Ensemble

Leonor Baldaque	...	Camila
Leonor Silveira	...	Vanessa
Isabel Ruth	...	Celsa
Ricardo Trêpa	...	Jose Feliciano
Ivo Canelas	...	Antonio Clara
Luís Miguel Cintra	...	Daniel Roper
José Manuel Mendes	...	Torcato Roper
Carmen Santos	...	Joana
Cecília Guimarães	...	Rute
Júlia Buisel	...	Aunt Tofi
Ângela Marques	...	Adoração
Diogo Dória	...	Policeman
Antonio Fonseca	...	Policeman
Duarte de Almeida	...	Mr. Ferreira
P. João Marques	...	Priest
António Costa	...	Tiago
David Cardoso	...	Overman
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
António Reis
Adelaide Teixeira	...	Mãe

Réalisé par
Manoel de Oliveira

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Agustina Bessa-Luís		novel
Júlia Buisel		writer
António Costa		writer
Manoel de Oliveira		writer
Jacques Parsi		writer

Produit par
Paulo Branco	....	producer

Image
Renato Berta

Montage
Manoel de Oliveira
Catherine Krassovsky

Création des décors
Zé Branco

Création des costumes
Isabel Branco

Maquillage
Aracelli Fuente	....	key makeup artist
Philippe Mangin	....	key hair stylist

Directeur de production
Joaquim Carvalho	....	production manager

Assistant réalisateur
José Maria Vaz da Silva	....	first assistant director

Technicien du son
Jean-François Auger	....	sound editor
Jean-François Auger	....	sound mixer
Henri Maïkoff	....	sound

Divers
Júlia Buisel	....	script supervisor
Renata Sancho	....	continuity

Production Companies

• Gémini Films
• Madragoa Filmes
• Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP)

Distributors

• Alcine Terran (2003) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Gémini Films
• Kinokuniya (2003) (Japan) (DVD) (box set)

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Bijou de famille (France) (working title)
Jóia de Família (Portugal) (working title)
Principe de l'incertitude, Le (France)
The Uncertainty Principle (International: English title)
Trésor de famille (France) (working title)

Durée:

133 min (Cannes Film Festival)

Pays:

France | Portugal

Langue:

Portugais

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Spain:13

Company:

Gémini Films

Anecdotes:

Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2002 (#05)

Connexions De Film:

Followed by Espelho Mágico (2005)

Mature masterpiece

Another masterpiece from the portugese master. Very different from last years popular Je rentre a la maison. This work is more akin to films like Abraham valley and Francisca. An american audience would obviously not get anything from a film as refined as this one.

Camila (Leonor Baldaque) marries António but is the marriage based on love? What is the role of Vanessa? Camila is passive-aggressive and puzzles her environment and the audience.

The cinematography by Renato Berta is superb. There are no camera movements except when the camera is on a bus or a train.

It's hard to summarise a great work like this. Just another peculiar note. Camila is played by the writers granddaughter. The man who really loves her is played by the directors grandson. Both roles captures something of their makers, according to the director.

Anyone interested in serious cinema should see this. People who prefer braindead american cinema shoud stay away.