A veteran filmmaker's moment of reflection and didacticism, and one supposes he's earned it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2005

Oliveira establishes a sense of timelessness only to catch his audience up short with a film that ultimately could scarcely be a more timely comment on the world in which we live.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 18, 2005

Structured like a chatty play in three acts.

| Mar 17, 2005

Extremely slow and won't be for those with no appetite for lengthy, self-serious monologues, but it also has a sharp, personal edge to it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2005

A potent and troubling meditation on the state of Western society.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2005

A thoughtful, provocative effort that makes up for its narrative failings with its astute philosophical musings.

Full Review | Dec 27, 2004

The freeze-frame finale is a stunner.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2004

The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira again shows himself to be a master of the medium with this sharply cut gem of a film about a mother and daughter sailing the Mediterranean.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2004

A film destined to divide Manoel de Oliveira's fans but also to win him new ones.

| Dec 9, 2004

A film which, with rare eloquence, speaks to our hearts and minds about modern quandaries and eternal truths.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 9, 2004

Serenely garrulous and weirdly soothing.

Full Review | Dec 8, 2004

Oliveira announces A Talking Picture as a journey into aesthetic and philosophical unknowns.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2004