Journey to the Beginning of the World

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06/24/2013 Hillarious movie about the memories, to which the Road movie Aesthetics gives even more beauty. It's genuine when even in real life old man rememebers his childhood, and in cinema it's even more genuine if This man is Marcello Mastroaianni , and he does such thing in such beutiful way like it's here, during stoping at various places from his past and especially at Outside the Hotel . It's very much like Ceylans "Once upon a time in Anatolia" but , in "Anatolia" melancholic style of memory retelling drives characters to Change lives, while here memories stay as they were and don't make much difference to present lives of heores. On the other hand here we also face the arrival to the roots , Like Afonso does when he arrives to his fathers village to Portugal to meet his aunt and also it's another clash of memories to reality, this time memories of Afonso's father. The best detail in this film I think was statue of pedro macau, man with huge log on his shoulders, and in my opinion it defines life, shows that anyone on the planet is Pedro Macau his own, and all of us has to carry such heavy load and no one can help us, it's ourselves and only ourselves who can deal with the difficulties of our lives, and the memories itself, which can be good or bad, are the part of that heavy load too. Beautiful , relaxing and thoughtful movie which I think is one of the most underrrated films I have ever seen. For me it's one of the best of 90's. See more 08/26/2011 Fascinant rà (C)cit des origines et de cinà (C)ma. See more 09/05/2010 Almost painfully simple in construction but with depth beyond comprehension. Apparently the most interesting thing about film director Manoel de Oliveira is his age (Yes, he's 101 and named the oldest working film director). When people remember this great director for his age, his films seem to get forgotten. Journey to the Beginning of the World is a film that feel like it could only have come from a person who has spent (at the time it was made) almost a century on this earth. Veteran actor Marcello Mastroianni plays the director Manoel in a journey across Portugal as the director recalls his childhood and french actor Afonso searches for the small country town where his father grew up and the aunt he's never met still lives. A poetic musing on nostalgia, fading childhoods memories and lost heritage. Words can't quite do the films subtle majestic power any justice at all. See more 10/02/2009 Good film, especially notable for being Mastroianni's last film. Oliveira succeeds with this one. See more 02/23/2009 the last Mastroianni's appearance in a film before his death, and what an honnour it should have been for Manoel de Oliveira, and even the other way around. two masters of the cinema, working together, for the first and last time. Oliveira has a very reflective style in directing his films for what i've noticed. they're very slow paced, the lines are indirect and somehow poetic, and sometimes the characters speak to themselves and even for the camera. This Voyage isn't a masterpiece, its more like a life thought. See more Read all reviews

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