Benilde ou a virgem máe
Portugal,
1975, 112 min
Shown in 1994
CREDITS
- dir
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Manoel de Oliveira
- prod
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Tóbis Portuguesa
- scr
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Manoel de Oliveira
- cam
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Elso Roque
- editor
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Manoel de Oliveira
- cast
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Maria Amélia Aranda, Jorge Rolla, Jacinto Ramos, Mario Barroso
- source
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Portuguese Film Institute
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COMMENTS
Manoel de Oliveira received the Akira Kurosawa Award in 1994; he appeared in person.
OTHER
A young girl, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle. Her distressed bourgeois family decides that she has lost her mind. Oliveira puts Jose Regio's contemporary play on the screen literally, choosing a highly theatrical approach—a stage-like setting, real-time pacing, static camera—that, ironically enough, enhances the story's latent eroticism.
FACTOID #200
Rockers, an entry at the 1978 SFIFF, was the first and only Jamaican feature film screened at the San Francisco International.
