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Party (1996)

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Beautiful movie by Oliveira, 10 January 2007

Author: Andres Salama from Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The first Oliveira movie I saw (about some 10 years ago; I have since seen several more of his movies and come to consider him a major director), I can't say I remember much of the plot, but the movie started with a beautiful shot of the waves breaking at the rocks of some cliff in the Portuguese coast. The film is basically about two couples, a young one and an old one (the lovely - and Oliveira regular - Leonor Silveira, Rogerio Samora, Michel Piccoli and Irene Papas) in two extended sequences. The first sequence happened in a garden party of some sort by the sea that is interrupted by a storm, the other happens some time later in a castle. The second sequence showed some argument between the couples, involving jealousy of some sort about something that happened in the first sequence. It is a talky movie, but even if I can remember the movie in all its details, I definitely remember being surprised at the unusual rhythm brought forward by this unique director.

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