A Talking Picture
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| A Talking Picture | |
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| Directed by | Manoel de Oliveira |
| Produced by | Paulo Branco |
| Written by | Manoel de Oliveira |
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve John Malkovich Irene Papas Stefania Sandrelli Leonor Silveira |
| Cinematography | Emmanuel Machuel |
| Distributed by | Kino International Corp. (U.S.) |
| Release date(s) | 2003 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
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A Talking Picture (Portuguese: Um Filme Falado) is a 2003 movie written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It stars Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Irene Papas, Stefania Sandrelli, and Leonor Silveira. Portuguese, French, Greek, English, and Italian are all spoken in the movie.
[edit] Plot
It is set in July, 2001. Maria Joana and her mother, Rosa Maria (Leonor Silveira) go on a cruise from their home country of Portugal to Bombay, India, to see Rosa's husband who is an airplane pilot. At each port, a new person boards the ship. Catherine Deneuve boards in France, Stefania Sandrelli in Italy, and Irene Papas in Athens. The captain of the ship (Malkovich) invites the three women to dinner at his table, and they all speak in their own languages for the better part of the conversation. Later in the movie, Maria Joana and Rosa Maria are also invited to dinner and the captain presents Maria Joana with a gift.
At dinner that night, the captain is informed that there are two time bombs aboard the ship. The passengers are then ordered to evacuate. Maria Joana runs back to her and her mother's cabin to get the gift the captain presented her with earlier that evening. Rosa Maria realizes that Maria Joana is missing, runs to the cabin to find her, and takes her back on deck to board a life raft. Unfortunately, it is too late; all the life rafts have left. The captain sees them on deck and yells for them to jump. As he is struggling to take off his uniform so he can swim to rescue them, there is the sound of two explosions and a bright light lights up the captain's face. The credits are displayed with the face of the captain, lit up from the explosion, in the background.
