The Cannibals (Os Canibais) (1988)
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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… More 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. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Directed By
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Genres
- Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Art House & International
R,
- Studio
- Les Films Plain Chant
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Cast
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Luís Miguel Cintra
as Viscount d'Aveleda
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Leonor Silveira
as Marguerite
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Diogo Dória
as Don Joao
- Joel Costa
- Rogério Samora
- Rogerio Vieira
- Antonio Loja Neves
- Oliviera Lopes
- Women's Choir of the Gulbenkian Orchestra
- Pedro da Silva
- Glória de Matos
- Oliveira Lopes
- Pedro T. da Silva
