The Convent
aka O Convento First screened in April 2015
Director: Manoel de Oliveira. Cast: John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, João Bénard da Costa, Heloísa Miranda, Gilberto Gonçalves. Screenplay: Manoel de Oliveira (based on an original idea by Agustina Bessa-Luís). Twitter Capsule:
Both interesting and limited as a sinister meditation on people as forms and concepts. Entombed in its own discourses?
VOR:②
Of interest to Oliveira completists, to Faust disciplies, and to philosophical traditions in the cinema. But as slithery as it becomes, it never shakes a kind of stodgy Euro-conventionalism.
