The Cannibals(Os Canibais)
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Portugal, France, West Germany · 1988
1h 35m
Director Manoel de Oliveira
Starring Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Oliveira Lopes
Genre Drama, Fantasy
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This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of style, director Manoel de Oliveira from composer João Paes. Musically, it ranges from 19th-century romanticism to popular, modernist and even "post-modernist" styles. In the initially tame story, a host-narrator tells the story of a wedding between the two lovebirds: Viscount d'Aveleda and the beautiful Marguerite. However, what happens in the bridal chamber is incredibly bizarre. The events after that are even stranger (the film out-does even Luis Buñuel in that department), and the wedding guests and family indulge in cannibalism, among other perversions.
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