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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
(Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo)

Screening on Film
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira.
With Marcello Mastrioanni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira.
ith Marcello, 1997, 35mm, color, 95 min.
French and Portugese with English subtitles.

In his final role, Marcello Mastrioanni is wonderfully cast as an aging film director, modeled on Oliveira himself, traveling with three young actors through northern Portugal and past places he had known in his youth. The leisurely pace, sensuous beauty of the passing landscapes, and Mastrioanni's touching performance all contribute to the film's rich evocation of place and time. A brilliant and emotionally rich road movie that deserves comparison to Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Voyage marks a high point in Oliveira's late career and remains deservedly among his best-known and most beloved works.

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