Past and Present
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This is an intriguing avant-garde look at what motivates the leisurely classes in Portugal, for better or worse, by director Manoel de Oliveira. Set in a spacious country home peopled with a wide-ranging cast of characters, the drama begins as the friends of a widow come to console her on the loss of her husband. But at one point, the widow goes upstairs, encounters her husband, and is faced with his accusations about the past. This event and others provide the means of revealing the petty, self-serving, egocentric, and romantic pursuits of the melange of people in the house. - Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
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Cast
23 people
Maria de Saisset
Vanda, a widow
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Manuela de Freitas
Noémia
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Recollections of the Yellow House
Fragments of an Alms-Film
Manoel de Oliveira
Also in
Doomed Love
Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
Vasco Sequeira
Known for
Lisbon Story
Vicente Sanches
Bárbara Vieira
Angélica
João Paes
Alberto Inácio
Ricardo
Pedro Pinheiro
Firmino
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Doomed Love
Olhos de Água
Acácio de Almeida
António Machado
Maurício
Zeni d'Ovar
Manoel de Oliveira Director · Vicente Sanches Writer Acácio de Almeida Cinematographer
United States release November 16, 1984 · Produced in Portugal · Original title O Passado e o Presente
Production
Centro Português de Cinema (CPC)
Production
Portugal
Produced in
Languages
Original title
O Passado e o Presente
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Portugal · February 27, 1972
Theatrical
United States · November 16, 1984
Premiere · Museum of Modern Art, New York
Czechia
November 19, 2002 · Premiere · CinEd@ys Film Week
France
January 16, 1980 · Theatrical
Italy
September 6, 1976 · Premiere · Venice Film Festival
Japan
November 7, 1993 · TV
September 18, 2010 · Premiere · Portuguese Cinema Festival
April 3, 2016 · Premiere · Takasaki Film Festival
Portugal
January 6, 1974 · Limited theatrical · Cinema Batalha, Porto
South Korea
October 9, 2011 · Premiere · Pusan International Film Festival
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