Year: 1972
Runtime: 115 mins
Language: Portuguese
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
An avant‑garde portrait of Portugal’s idle classes, Manoel de Oliveira sets the drama in a spacious country house where a widowed matriarch receives condolences for her husband’s death. She goes upstairs, meets his ghost, and faces his accusations about the past. The encounters expose the petty, self‑serving and romantic motives of the eclectic guests and servants sharing the home.
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