Oliveira, a nonagenarian when he made the film, conveys the hidden rapture of daily life-and the power of images to preserve it.

| May 26, 2020

[Michel] Piccoli's performance is the film's beating heart.

| Mar 4, 2019

An understated film that touches on greatness.

| Original Score: A | Aug 28, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2005

a realistic look at the ways in which mortality plays into the conscious and subconscious plans of the living

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 16, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2004

A rarity, a film about old age that is neither a celebration or lament of of lost youth, nor an anticipation of impending death, but simply an unsentimental meditation on the ambiguous present, on aimlessness, isolation, and infirmity.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 25, 2003

There's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2003

Elliptical as it is perceptive.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 27, 2002

Stylistically adventurous.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2002

A minor film with major pleasures from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliviera...

| Original Score: B | Nov 21, 2002

The kind of quiet masterpiece that fully registers only after you've seen it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 15, 2002

One of the greatest films I've ever seen.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 7, 2002

Subtly powerful.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2002

Oliveira trusts the intelligence of his audience...In the life of the city he suggests the ongoing life of humanity, the context in which individual mortality must be contemplated.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2002

Watching this gentle, mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time, you barely realize your mind is being blown.

| Oct 18, 2002

The movie is a trove of delights.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2002

A poignant, artfully crafted meditation on mortality.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 27, 2002