Book, Epic Cinema by Manoel de Oliveira, O[LS]

Theater. Policy. Art. Movie theater. The Portuguese filmmaker's Brechtian epic, its multiple references, its multiple meanings. Manoel de Oliveira's Cinema Épico is clear in its pretensions: to prove that the Portuguese filmmaker's films can only be fully understood if we take into account the basic influence of modern epic theater theorized by Bertolt Brecht, with whom Oliveira's trajectory had points in common. common, including the admiration that both the filmmaker and the playwright had for the masters of Soviet cinema, Vertov and Eisenstein and their rejection of established standards. From these clashes the Portuguese director's film production blossoms, deep, intense, poetic.