Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me(2016)

Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me Synopsis

“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho

Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me (2016) is a documentary film directed by João Botelho, released on August 11, 2016 with a runtime of 1h 20m. It stars João Botelho, Mariana Dias, António Durães and Ângela Marques. Viewers rate it 6.4 out of 10 across 5 ratings.