Fresh
Subtle, elegant, enigmatic, this movie by the veteran Oliveira exercises a powerful grip.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Overview
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Director and cast
- Manoel de Oliveira Director
- Leonor Silveira as Ema Cardeano Paiva
- Luís Miguel Cintra as Carlos de Paiva
- Ruy de Carvalho as Paulino Cardeano
- Cécile Sanz de Alba as Ema (young)
- Luís Lima Barreto as Pedro Luminares
- Micheline Larpin as Simona
- Diogo Dória as Fernando Osório
- José Pinto as Caires
- Filipe Cochofel as Fortunato
- João Perry as Pedro Dossém
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It mesmerizes, sometimes maddens and tests the emotional and physical reflexes.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
This beautifully shot, slow-moving, talky meditation on a life of leisure led by an adulterous woman differs most radically from Flaubert's novel in its indifference to the middle class.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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