Oliveira larchitecte ( Paulo Rocha, 1993) eng fr sub

During the summer of 1992 Oliveira, though behindhand with the script of his modern version of Madame Bovary of which the filming was to begin a month later, agreed to waste a week with me, on the truth game of this portrait. As I was born in the same town as he was and as I have been in his confidence for almost 40 years, I wanted to make him talk of our common obsessions and our common roots : Porto, a cinema town, the beginning of silent films, women who are sirens, women who are forerunners. Paulo Rocha.