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Mood:
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- Artist's LifeHuman NatureIntrospectionPsychologicalRedemptionSelf DiscoveryCouple RelationsParents and Children more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeign
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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- EuropeFranceCountryside
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- On the RoadTalky
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World, 1997
French, Portuguese
Portugal, France
Profile of Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Voyage to the Beginning of the World can be described as bittersweet, contemplative, and touching. The plot revolves around a midlife crisis, estrangement, and the life of an artist. The main genres are drama and foreign. In terms of style, it has a road movie structure and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in the countryside. It is located in France. It takes place in the 1990s. It is drawn from a biography.
Summary of Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Marcello Mastroianni stars as an aging film director (named Manoel, essentially representing 90-year-old director Manoel de Oliveira) traveling to Portugal with a few members of his production staff to take his leading actor, Afonso (Jean-Yves Gautier), back to the town his family came from, searching to reconnect with his roots. As the group continues winding through ever-smaller villages, Manoel remembers stories from his childhood, reflecting on an exhilarating, painful life soon to be over. After Manoel shares each entertaining story, leading the others to relate poignant moments from their lives, director Oliveira lets the camera linger out the car's back window for lengthy periods of dialogue-free time, allowing the past to disappear quietly into the distance. When the travelers finally meet Afonso's aunt, the old ways clash with the new as Afonso tries to convince his aunt who he is and what he has become. Voyage to the Beginning of the World is a moving, funny, unique road trip film. The cast is uniformly excellent, but the film is a showcase for Mastroianni, in what was his 171st and final film. Don't miss the scene at the old aunt's table in which Mastroianni makes two marvelously silly faces, clearly having fun near the end of his character's life as well as his own.
Details
| Language: | French, Portuguese |
| Country: | Portugal, France |
| Release date: | October 1997 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as Manoel
as Afonso
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